Why the Lived-body does exist, I: Critiques on Claude Romano's existentialist thought

Abstract

The phenomenological notion of the lived-body (Leib) is possibly one of the most important and representative contributions that the tradition initiated by Husserl has developed. This concept, as much as the associated objective body (Körper), has recently been questioned by the exposition of the French thinker Claude Romano. Inspired by Heidegger’s existentialism, the French author demonstrates his distinctive phenomenological view by intervening in the anthropological problem of the mind/body relationship. From an analysis of his position, in this first part of our development, some critiques are presented that will be continued, in a further disquisition, by the description of his anthropological treatment’s characteristics.