Modes of body absence and presence based on bodily sensorimotor telos

Abstract

Phenomenology shows that our relationship with things and with others essentially involves the question of our bodily reality, and that the circumstances of the appearance of one’s own body relates, above all, to its primordial condition not as an object of perception, but as a structure of appearance. In this context, we discuss the modes of absence and presence of the body according to phenomenology, seeking to draw an outline of the topic based on Drew Leder’s methodological option: to initiate a phenomenology of the body by the structural principles of sensorimotor activity. We drew on three dimensions described by the author related to our sensorimotor skills: physical, attentional and functional.