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The Non-signifying Gesture of the Living Body

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I intend to show that in several alternative biological conceptions inspired by hermeneutics of the 20th century the subject-object split is still preserved and that it is necessary to be inspired by other moments of the hermeneutical thought if a real alternative to Cartesianism should be formulated. Such attempt could be found in the philosophical hermeneutics of H.-G. Gadamer but it is not yet sufficient. I suppose that only on the basis of the idea of the human self-non-understanding and self-decentralization it is possible to grasp theoretically the “non-human” living being in an adequate way (inspiration found by Derrida, Deleuze, Blanchot).

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Supported by the project of the Czech Ministry of education MSM 0021620845, the GPSS Major Awards Programme, a joint program of the Interdisciplinary University of Paris and Elon University; and “Post-phenomenological conception of experience”, IN KJB901110802, GAAV.

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  1. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Sciences, Viničná 7, Praha 2, Czechia, 128 44

    Alice Koubová

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Koubová, A. The Non-signifying Gesture of the Living Body. Biosemiotics 4, 127–147 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-010-9094-9

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