메를로-뽕띠(Merleau-Ponty)의 현상학적 신체론과 페미니즘

• 영문명: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of the Body and Some Feminist Responses
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 김진아(Jina Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제9권 제1호, 5~25쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2004.06.01

영문 초록

This essay purports to examine Merleau-Ponty's existential philosophy of the body in The Phenomenology of Perception and assess the responses to his theory raised by some feminists. Merleau-Ponty posits a new philosophy of the body that locates the subjectivity and consciousness in the lived body, rendering human subjectivity the embodied subject and consciousness embodied consciousness. It is only through the body that human beings exist, act, love, think, plan, formulate projects and interact with other people and things in the world. This move to situate subjectivity in the lived body radically challenges the dualistic perspective inherent in the traditional Western philosophy and empirical science prevailing in his times, and makes it impossible to preserve the mutual exclusivity of the categories subject and object, inner and outer, I and the world and mind and body. Many feminists have welcomed the disruption of the mind/body dualism and the emphasis on the significance of the body in human existence in Merleau-Ponty's theory, since in the traditional metaphysics the body as a devalued term had been associated with women, while men had occupied the position of the transcendental, rational, and transparent consciousness. On the other hand, they also argue that his theory of the body exclusively deals with a universalized, gender-neutral and thereby male body, and consequently ignores the specifically gendered experience of the female body. In this essay, I want to argue that Mereleau-ponty's theory of the body always posits "a situated body" which encom passes concrete historical, cultural and social situations and therefore opens to the analysis of the particular bodies including the female body.

목차

1.메를로-뽕띠의 신체론: 관념론과 경험주의 비판¹)

2.세계-내-존재로서의 인간

3.성적 존재로서의 인간

4.메를로-뽕띠와 페미니즘

참고문헌

Abstract