Plushcheva M. Phenomenological Ontology of Corporality

The dissertation is devoted to the analysis of ontological basis of human corporality from the phenomenological point of view. It's found out that phenomenology considers corporality and intersubjectivity as interdependent phenomena, where the first one can be the ontological basis of the other and vice versa. Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Pole Sartre posit these two different versions of this dichotomy into their conceptions. In this dissertation there is analysis of the theoretical statements of the foregoing opposite conceptions of corporality/itersubjectivity relations. Also there are substantiated several statements about possibility to solve some difficulties of Gestalt-psychology by phenomenology means (this problem is considered in the whole analysis of the theories of perception and conceptions of corporality). Also there proposed possibility of elimination of contradictions of Sartre's phenomenological conception of intersubjectivity by using methodological means of phenomenological sociology.