The body as mediator of the world : contributions by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Don Ihde

dc.contributor.authorViljoen, Marga
dc.contributor.emailmarga.viljoen@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-07T11:00:08Z
dc.date.available2011-02-07T11:00:08Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis 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.abstractHierdie 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.citationViljoen, 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.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/15837
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectUniversity of Pretoriaen_US
dc.subjectBodyen_US
dc.subjectIhdeen_US
dc.subjectMediationen_US
dc.subjectMerleau-Pontyen_US
dc.subjectTechnicsen_US
dc.subjectBemiddelingaf
dc.subjectLiggaamaf
dc.subjectTegniekaf
dc.subject.lcshTechnology -- Philosophyen
dc.subject.lcshTechnology -- Social aspectsen
dc.subject.lcshPerception (Philosophy)en
dc.subject.lcshPhenomenologyen
dc.subject.lcshMerleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 -- Criticism and interpretationen
dc.subject.lcshIhde, Don, 1934- -- Criticism and interpretationen
dc.subject.lcshHuman body (Philosophy)en
dc.titleThe body as mediator of the world : contributions by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Don Ihdeen_US
dc.title.alternativeLiggaam as bemiddelaar van die wêreld : bydraes deur Maurice Merleau-Ponty en Don Ihdeaf
dc.typeArticleen_US

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