Körper als Text?

Andreas Ackermann

pp. 75-107

in: Matthias Jung, Michaela Bauks, Andreas Ackermann (eds), Dem Körper eingeschrieben, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

The article sketches anthropological perspectives on the body, focusing on body and ritual in general as well as the metaphors of text and inscription in particular. In order to sharpen the argument, a Copernican turn is postulated, leading from an understanding of the body as expression or object of culture to the notion of the body as "Leib", that is subject or precondition of culture. Characteristic of this turn is the attempt to transcend the Cartesian body-mind dualism by referring to phenomenologically grounded concepts of the body, as exemplified by the embodiment concept of Thomas Csordas.