William Buschert (University of Saskatchewan): Publications - PhilPeople

University of Saskatchewan
Department of Philosophy

Other faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Areas of Specialization

Social and Political Philosophy

Areas of Interest

Social and Political Philosophy

Philosophy of Computing and Information

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Instruments and the body: Sartre and Merleau-ponty
with Nebojsa Kujundzic

Research in Phenomenology 24 (1): 206-215. 1994.

We argue that no sharp boundary can be drawn between the ``authentic'' human body and its instruments. In contrast to some other theorists of the continental canon--notably Heidegger and the Frankfurt school--Sartre and Merleau-Ponty can be read as asserting that the body (transitively) ``lives'' its instruments, weaving with them an intricate web of habitual actions and experiences. For Merleau-Ponty especially, the human body and its instruments are capable of complementing, supplementing, and…Read more
We argue that no sharp boundary can be drawn between the ``authentic'' human body and its instruments. In contrast to some other theorists of the continental canon--notably Heidegger and the Frankfurt school--Sartre and Merleau-Ponty can be read as asserting that the body (transitively) ``lives'' its instruments, weaving with them an intricate web of habitual actions and experiences. For Merleau-Ponty especially, the human body and its instruments are capable of complementing, supplementing, and melting into one another.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty Jean-Paul Sartre
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Staging the life-world: Habermas and the recuperation of Austin's speech act theory
with Nebojsa Kujundzic, William Buschert, Nebojsa Kujundzic, and William Buschert

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 23 (1). 1993.

Jürgen Habermas