How do we talk about the human body in philosophy, philosophy didactics and general pedagogy? In these disciplines thinking about the bodily constitution of the human being is dominated by a concept of the body that starts from Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception. Under this focus, however, experiences of alienation that have as their object one's own body in its materiality are hardly addressed at all, or only in a pathologising way. The book contrasts this with an existentialist-phenomenological perspective that can be used to thematise experiences that have hardly been grasped so far. Such experiences are those of one's own body in its material existence - which should find their way into philosophical education.

Patrizia Breil, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Tübingen School of Education, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen