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Phenomenological notion of the body and its possible consequences for practice of body-oriented disciplines
Kříž, Petr ; Parry, Silvan James (advisor) ; Jirásek, Ivo (referee) ; Hurych, Emanuel (referee)
Title: Phenomenological notion of the body and its possible consequences for practice of body- oriented disciplines Objectives: This thesis aims to clarify the possible projection of phenomenological findings about the body into the body-oriented disciplines. The interpretation of René Descartes, Edmund Husserl and, above all, Maurice Merleau-Ponty comes to the postulate that the body itself is not an object, but rather it is that by which objects exist as objects in the first place. From this phenomenological postulate there follows the deep opposition of the phenomenological notion of the body to the notion on which body-oriented disciplines commonly (but usually only implicitly) base their theory and practice. The thesis thus presents not only the interpretation of positive phenomenological concepts, but also the interpretation of phenomenological criticism of the physiological and psychological (or psychologizing) concept of the body, which stand on the flaws and prejudices of the empiricist and intellectualist traditions of Western thought. Subsequently, the possible impacts of both phenomenological criticism and phenomenological concepts on the practice of body-oriented disciplines are discussed. Methodology: This dissertation is a philosophical treatise. The first part is a philosophical...
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