JAN PATOČKA ET LA DYNAMISATION DE LA CORPORÉITÉ

Abstract

Jan Patočka and the Dynamisation of Corporeity. Following the presentation of the two manners in which Patočka defines the corporeity of the « own body » (namely as a center of orientation only partially rediscovered in the subsequent self-perception and as the grounding point of a force characterized by its advancement towards the world), the article analyses the implications of Maine de Biran’s influence on Patočka’s views and, by identifying the most radical of the latter’s results (specifically Patočka’s depiction of the subjective movement as an original and indivisible phenomenon), concludes, against the phenomenological orthodoxy, that the “own” body is not fundamentally different from the rest of the world and that its place as a phenomenal locus of the absence of distinction between the subjective and the objective should instead be held by the movement that we are (which, in its turn, is part of the global movement of the world).