Computers and the embodied nature of communication: Merleau-Ponty's new ontology of embodiment

  • Authors:
  • Arun Kumar Tripathi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Philosophy of Technology, Institute for Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Ubiquity
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not "inhabit" only "the inner man," or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception, Preface (1945)For the modern Man it is not so important to feel the Desire (Lust) or Listlessness (Unlust), but to animate themselves; Für den modernen Menschen ist es nicht mehr wichtig, Lust oder Unlust zu empfinden, sondern angeregt zu werden (Friedrich Nietszche, S. 108, Vom Übermenschen zu überreizten Menschen, "Paul Virilio, Die Eroberung des Körpers, Hanser Verlag, 1994)