Carnal Hermeneutics
Published:
01 September 2015
Online ISBN:
9780823266951
Print ISBN:
9780823265886
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I: Essential Skin I: Essential Skin
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“To Have Somebody’s Skin” “To Have Somebody’s Skin”
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Skinned Skinned
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À Fleur de Peau: On the Surface of the Skin À Fleur de Peau: On the Surface of the Skin
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The Taboo of Touch The Taboo of Touch
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Zones Zones
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“I’ve Got You under My Skin” “I’ve Got You under My Skin”
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Coda Coda
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II: Motion and Emotion II: Motion and Emotion
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Cite
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 'Rethinking Corpus', in Richard Kearney, and Brian Treanor (eds), Carnal Hermeneutics, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (FUP) (New York, NY , 2015; online edn, Fordham Scholarship Online, 21 Jan. 2016), https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823265886.003.0003, accessed 15 July 2026.
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Abstract
This chapter takes up touch in relation to life and death, taboo and zone. The author shows how skin is the boundary in which inside and outside are related and distinguished. Drawing on a variety of linguistic traditions, he shows how moments of intimacy move us beyond functionality toward a deepening carnal signification. The second part of this chapter examines the semantic familiarity and play of Rühren, Berühren, and Aufruhr. The author argues that touch sets things in motion, and initiates the differentiation of bodies as in the event of birth. It is this primal carnal separation that initiates our openness to touch, contact, the world, and relationship.
Subject
Philosophy of Mind
Collection:
Fordham Scholarship Online
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