Abstract

After describing briefly some features of the phenomenology and anthropology of embodiment, this paper attempts to demonstrate the existence of an interesting point of covergence between a phenomenology of embodiment as studied and developed by Bernhard Waldenfels in a very broad range of works and the proposals from some representatives of contemporary cultural anthropology, who consider embodiment the existential ground of the culture and the self. Between biologicistic naturalism and constructivistic representationism, it is possible to provide a phenomenological analysis of the embodiment that restores its funtion of mediating between nature and culture and wich does not deny either of these two elements nor their mutual intertwining