Sense of Body

Abstract: Many attempts of contemporary philosophers to reduce ‘mind ’ to ‘body ’ notwithstanding, where the ‘body ’ is understood in the Cartesian framework, the continental philosophers in general repeatedly remind us that body has a significance that goes beyond its materiality as a bio-chemical physical substance. In “questioning body, ” we wish to take up the philosophical underpinnings of the significance of body as a framework or tool to understand ‘technology’. By doing so, we are able to see the link between technology and body as more than a fortuitous relation. Relying on the writings of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Ihde, the paper attempts to show how a “sense of body, ” particularly the notion of “agentive body ” as distinguished from the “symbolic body,” hermeneutically evolves from the way in which it is entangled in the technological matrix