Studia Phaenomenologica

Volume 12, 2012

Possibilities of Embodiment

Jan Bierhanzl
Pages 85-107

Signifiance éthique et corporéité dans Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence

The paper here presented deals with ethical signifying as happening in corporeity. The starting point is a provisional definition of ethical signifying as a process and a relation to the other. In the first part I attempt to describe precisely this process and distinguish two aspects: concretization and hyperbole. In the second and main part I try to outline concretization and hyperbole in the corporeal relation to the other. The modalities of ethical signifying are caress, vulnerability, maternity and last but not least the voice of the self.