The body as mediator of the world : contributions by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Don Ihde
dc.contributor.author | Viljoen, Marga | |
dc.contributor.email | marga.viljoen@up.ac.za | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-07T11:00:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-02-07T11:00:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article focuses on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body and his explications of the body as mediator of the world. Merleau-Ponty's notion of the body which projects the cultural world around it by means of 'making' (technē) and 'using / applying' (technique / habit acquisition), is complimented by Bourdieu's notion of individual and social habitus. However, the significant contribution by Don Ihde - contemporary American philosopher of technology - on the structural relations between the body and technology, better serves as an extension to Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of our bodily engagement in the world. In fact, Ihde's notion of human-technology relations and mediation are mutually inclusive. In their explications of embodiment and technics, the Ihde- Merleau-Ponty pair gives us a comprehensive idea on mediation and on the relations between the body, perception, the cultural and symbolic world and technics. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Hierdie artikel fokus op Maurice Merleau-Ponty se fenomenologie van die liggaam en sy uiteensetting van die liggaam as bemiddelaar van die wêreld. Merleau-Ponty se idee dat die liggaam die kulturele wêreld projekteer deur die proses van 'maak' (technē), aanwending / toepassing (tegniek / gewoontevorming), word uitgebrei deur Bourdieu se idees oor individuele - en sosiale habitus. Die belangrike bydrae deur die kontemporêre tegniekfilosoof, Don Ihde, ten opsigte van die strukturele verhouding tussen die liggaam en tegnologiese artefakte (of tegnologie), vul Merleau-Ponty se fenomenologie van die liggaam-in-die-wêreld baie goed aan. Ons kan aanneem dat Ihde se konsep van mens-tegnologieverhoudings en bemiddeling gepaard gaan. Die Merleau-Ponty-Ihde - paar se werk gee vir ons 'n beter idee oor bemiddeling, oor die verband tussen die liggaam, waarneming, die kulturele - en simboliese wêreld asook tegniek. | af |
dc.identifier.citation | Viljoen, M 2010, 'The body as mediator of the world : contributions by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Don Ihde', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 67-110. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0258-3542 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/15837 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Art Historical Work Group of South Africa | en_US |
dc.rights | Art Historical Work Group of South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | University of Pretoria | en_US |
dc.subject | Body | en_US |
dc.subject | Ihde | en_US |
dc.subject | Mediation | en_US |
dc.subject | Merleau-Ponty | en_US |
dc.subject | Technics | en_US |
dc.subject | Bemiddeling | af |
dc.subject | Liggaam | af |
dc.subject | Tegniek | af |
dc.subject.lcsh | Technology -- Philosophy | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Technology -- Social aspects | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Perception (Philosophy) | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Phenomenology | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Ihde, Don, 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Human body (Philosophy) | en |
dc.title | The body as mediator of the world : contributions by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Don Ihde | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Liggaam as bemiddelaar van die wêreld : bydraes deur Maurice Merleau-Ponty en Don Ihde | af |
dc.type | Article | en_US |