Ma quanti corpi abbiamo? Sulla mitologia della corporeità

Abstract

This paper will attempt a chrono-spatial, empirical and organic foundation of metaphysics from a phenomenological perspective. I will argue that Valéry’s theory of the four bodies highlights the layered complexity of the body as a paradoxical unity of reality and imagination, that further brings to the field of art embodiment and to the question of myth, through a deep dialogue with the aesthetic debate on art, from Winkelmann to Herder and beyond.