•  12
    Riassunto: Il senso della vita
    Chiasmi International 7 325-325. 2005.
  •  12
    L’imagerie du corps interne
    Methodos 4. 2004.
    Les technologies contemporaines de l’image, telles que les ultrasons, l’endoscopie, et autres IRM et scanners, transforment l’image de notre corps. Dans cet article, cette transformation est particulièrement mise en lumière à partir d’une œuvre de Mona Hatoum intitulée “ Corps étranger ”. Cette œuvre d’art consiste en une projection vidéo d’images endoscopiques de l’intérieur du corps de l’artiste. On dit souvent qu’il est impossible de s’identifier soi-même à partir de ce type d’images dans la …Read more
  •  12
    Sharing lives, sharing bodies: partners negotiating breast cancer experiences
    with Marjolein de Boer and Kristin Zeiler
    Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22 (2): 253-265. 2019.
    By drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy of ontological relationality, this article explores what it means to be a ‘we’ in breast cancer. What are the characteristics—the extent and diversity—of couples’ relationally lived experiences of bodily changes in breast cancer? Through analyzing duo interviews with diagnosed women and their partners, four ways of sharing an embodied life are identified. While ‘being different together’, partners have different, albeit connected kinds of experiences of …Read more
  •  10
    Facing a Disruptive Face: Embodiment in the Everyday Experiences of “Disfigured” Individuals
    with Gili Yaron, Agnes Meershoek, Guy Widdershoven, and Michiel van den Brekel
    Human Studies 40 (2): 285-307. 2017.
    In recent years, facial difference is increasingly on the public and academic agenda. This is evidenced by the growing public presence of individuals with an atypical face, and the simultaneous emergence of research investigating the issues associated with facial variance. The scholarship on facial difference approaches this topic either through a medical and rehabilitation perspective, or a psycho-social one. However, having a different face also encompasses an embodied dimension. In this paper…Read more
  •  9
    Filosoferen over littekens
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 109 (1): 25-43. 2017.
    Philosophizing on Scars: Plea for a Material Turn in PhenomonologyIn this paper, I provide a philosophical reflection on the meaning of scars while drawing on phenomenological studies of the body. According to Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, the body as Leib or corps vécu functions as a transcendental condition for world disclosure. Because of this transcendental reasoning, phenomenological studies concerning embodiment often prioritize a form of embodied subjectivity that is virtually immaterial. En…Read more
  •  8
    “You need to listen better to your body!” is a common prescription in contemporary health discourse. From a phenomenological perspective, we can say that the ability to hear your body implies body awareness. In this paper, I will provide a phenomenological analysis of the different ways in which the “audible body” can appear, and how this is related to health, drawing on the work of Merleau-Ponty, Shusterman, Leder, and Nancy. In Merleau-Ponty’s early work, so I explain, the “lived body” emerges…Read more
  •  8
    The Mediated Breast: Technology, Agency, and Breast Cancer
    with Marjolein Boer
    Human Studies 41 (2): 275-292. 2018.
    Women intimately interact with various medical technologies and prosthetic artifacts in the context of breast cancer. While extensive work has been done on the agency of technological artifacts and how they affect users’ perceptions and experiences, the agency of users is largely taken for granted hitherto. In this article, we explore the agency of four women who engage with breast cancer technologies and artifacts by analyzing their narrative accounts of such engagements. This empirical discuss…Read more
  •  8
    Kunst en Filosofie
    Wijsgerig Perspectief 43 (4): 18-27. 2003.
  •  6
    Producing ME/CFS in Dutch Newspapers. A Social-Discursive Analysis About Non/credibility
    with Marjolein Lotte de Boer
    Social Epistemology 37 (5): 592-609. 2023.
    Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a highly contested illness. This paper analyzes the discursive production of knowledge about, and recognition of ME/CFS. By mobilizing insights from social epistemology and epistemic injustice studies, this paper reveals how actors, through their social-discursive practices, attribute to establishing, sustaining, and disregarding their own and others’ epistemological position. In focusing on the case of the Dutch newspaper reportin…Read more
  •  6
    This paper aims to mobilize the way we think and write about fat bodies while drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy of the body. I introduce Nancy’s approach to the body as an addition to contemporary new materialism. His philosophy, so I argue, offers a form of materialism that allows for a phenomenological exploration of the body. As such, it can help us to understand the lived experiences of fat embodiment. Additionally, Nancy’s idea of the body in terms of a “corpus”—a collection of pieces …Read more
  •  5
    This volume focuses on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s important contribution to the phenomenology of corporeity and affectivity, and it explores the various influences his work had and still has on other disciplines
  •  3
    Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested Illnesses
    with Sanneke de Haan and Irene Groenevelt
    Body and Society 28 (4): 28-52. 2022.
    This article is based on an online ethnographic study of Dutch women who use YouTube as a medium to document their contested illness experiences. During 13 months of observations between 2017 and 2019, we followed a sample of 16 YouTubers, and conducted an in-depth analysis of 30 YouTube videos and of 7 interviews. By adopting a ‘praxiographic’ approach to social media, and by utilising insights from phenomenological theory, this study teases out how bodies are ‘done’ in (the making of) these Yo…Read more
  •  3
    Fenomenologie van ziekte en abnormaliteit
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112 (1): 1-24. 2020.
    Phenomenology of illness and abnormality Habitually, illness or disease is considered as something abnormal. Therefore, the distinction between health/illness is often conflated with the distinction normal/abnormal. Inspired by Kurt Goldstein’s work, Merleau-Ponty makes clear, however, that abnormality does not automatically coincide with pathology. It is also interesting to note that Merleau-Ponty nowhere uses the term “abnormal” to indicate the opposite of the normal person. Similar to Georges…Read more
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    Repliek
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112 (1): 65-72. 2020.
    Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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    Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908-2008: Filosofie als herdenking
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 70 (3): 453-456. 2008.
  •  1
    Phenomenology of the icon
    In Robert Vallier, Wayne Jeffrey Froman & Bernard Flynn (eds.), Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy: Transforming the Tradition, State University of New York Press. 2009.
  •  1
    Toward a Phenomenology of Abnormality
    In Talia Welch & Susan Bredlau (eds.), Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, Suny Press. pp. 19-39. 2022.
  • L'expression au-delà de la représentation. Sur l'aisthêsis et l'esthétique chez Merleau-Ponty
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 194 (1): 121-122. 2004.
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908-2008-Philosophy as a recollection
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 70 (3): 453-456. 2008.
  • Filosofie en Kunst
    Wijsgerig Perspectief 43 (4): 18-27. 2003.