Our Daily Body and Its Instrumental Role in Communication: Aurel Codoban's Reading Body as Language
As in religious traditions, the soul organizes entirely the human condition horizon; postmodern culture sets the body as the organizing centre of its sacralizing mechanisms. Some even speak about a cult and about ritual mechanisms having a religious charge. On the one hand, the body is attributed a...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2018, Volume: 17, Issue: 50, Pages: 140-156 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Codoban, Aurel 1948-
/ Body
/ Body
/ Communication
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
body as communication instrument
B Human Condition B Aurel Codoban B philosophy of communication B existential counseling B postmodern religiosity B love hermeneutics B religious traditions |
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Summary: | As in religious traditions, the soul organizes entirely the human condition horizon; postmodern culture sets the body as the organizing centre of its sacralizing mechanisms. Some even speak about a cult and about ritual mechanisms having a religious charge. On the one hand, the body is attributed a symbolic dimension surfacing in the fight against the finite and life's lack of meaning. On the other, turning the body into a centre of the existential universe triggers a better delineation of the functions it may fulfill. An important role belongs to the networking function that crosses over the human inhabited worlds, from the physical one to the spiritual and religious one. To highlight these aspects, I called on the reflections in Aurel Codoban's communication philosophy. The new view on corporality brings the image of body as language, as communication instrument and as significant surface. Against this background, the body sets a self-concern whose consequence, symbolically, is a dialectic movement of body and soul nourishing one other and improving one another in light of authenticity. |
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ISSN: | 1583-0039 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
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