phainomena

Ključne besede: medtelesnost, antropološki stroj, prepoznavnost, pragovi,
lateralna/frontalna družbenost.
Lucia Zaietta
Humanity is another corporeity:
Animal and Human Bodies in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty
This article focuses on the question of anthropological difference and
animal-human relations from the perspective of the phenomenology of
Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through an in-depth analysis of corporeity Merleau-
Ponty discovers and valorizes a common ontological ground between human
beings and animals: far from being reducible to a mere machine, the body
tells us something about animals, about us, and, finally, about our mutual
interrelationships. What does it mean to be a body, a body that acts, inhabits a
meaningful space, and expresses something? Animals and human beings share
a corporeity that constitutes their openness to the world and it is in the light of
this continuity that Merleau-Ponty was able to find a new kind of relation, “an
overcoming that does not abolish the kinship”. An original notion of difference
appears here, a notion that valorizes the specificity of each être-au-monde
without becoming an ontological gap. A human being thus is not an animal
plus something more, but rather another corporeity.
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Keywords: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, phenomenology, animality, humananimal
relationship, corporeity.
Človeškost je drugačna telesnost:
Živalska in človeška telesa v Merleau-Pontyjevi filozofiji
Članek se osredotoča na antropološko diferenco in odnose med živalskim
in človeškim z vidika fenomenologije Mauricea Merleau-Pontyja. Merleau-
Ponty s poglobljeno analizo telesnosti razkrije in ovrednoti ontološki temelj, ki
je skupen tako ljudem kot živalim: telesa nikakor ni mogoče zreducirati zgolj
na stroj, temveč nam sporoča nekaj o živalih, o nas samih in naposled tudi o
naših medsebojnih odnosih. Kaj pomeni biti telo, telo, ki deluje, naseljuje s