Embodied subjectivity frameworks of an existential sociology
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Subjectivity, Body, Social theory, ExistentialismAbstract
The paper proposes a concept of embodied subjectivity in the framework of an existential sociology. Starting from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's existentialist-phenomenological philosophy, I present some questions concerning the subject and the body in the social world. These questions are then brought to bear on Erving Goffman's sociological theory and the work of Michel Foucault. Through these three authors, a notion of embodied subjectivity is constructed, that is, a concept of subject that takes into consideration the body as a fundamental nexus of social relations. Finally, two directions of a possible existential sociology are explored based on the notion of embodied subjectivity.
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