MEDICA REVIEW. International Medical Humanities Review / Revista Internacional de Humanidades Médicas

Interview with Dr. Martín Grassi

Martin Grassi — 2023-03-10

Reversibility and style in Merleau-Ponty’s theory

Jesica Estefanía Buffone — 2023-03-28

I will analyze the fundamentals that make possible the discovery, interaction and interweaving with other subjectivities. I consider that in this circuit of reversibility in which the others are a constitutive part of ourselves, the perception of the motor style is what gives rise to intersubjective exchanges, being this kinesthetic and intercorporeal primary pairing the origin of joint action and, thus, of any community bond. From the description that Merleau-Ponty makes of this dynamic of involvement of my body with the environment, the surrounding world is a constitutive part of that exchange, determining specific ways of doing and moving together.

Body Proper, Appropriated

Martin Grassi — 2023-06-07

The concept of habit receives a technical-philosophical use in the work of Aristotle that entails a dialectics between the agent and a system in which he is situated. In its dual active and passive dimensions, the notion of habit enables to understand the living body as a body proper and, at the same time, as an appropriated body. The habit is the fundamental biopolitical dispositive by which the living body is appropriated and subjected to the Body Politic and its logic, made explicit in Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus.