Language as Embodiment

Autor: Beatrice Kobow
Jazyk: English<br />French<br />Italian
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Phenomenology and Mind, Iss 1 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2280-7853
2239-4028
DOI: 10.13128/Phe_Mi-19656
Popis: The paper traces the particular quality of human existence as linguistic embodied existence. In asking whether language is like body, it spells out what linguistic experience entails and what kind of picture results from this analysis as grounding the “person” (following Gallagher & Zahavi’s definition) in space/time/body and language. Understanding linguistic existence as embodied existence also facilitates an argument against a representationalist view of language. Nietzsche’s concern is taken up and analyzed: Does the self-reflexivity resulting from linguistic experience threaten individuality? Against his pessimistic conclusion, the article suggests to see language as enabling the individual agent-self.
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