Encouraging actors: techniques of the body and the role of the body in politics

Abstrakt

The article presents and compares two approaches to the body - Maurice Merleau-Ponty's (related to the concepts of body and perception) and Marcel Mauss's (related to the concept of techniques of the body), and attempts to apply them to the contexts of politics and the mission of the Church.

Klíčová slova

• Body
• perception
• techniques of the body
• movement
• Merleau-Ponty
• Mauss.