Boda Liu

From Bodiless Kinesthesia to “Inner-Body”: On the Split of Body in Husserl’s Phenomenology

Husserl Studies June 3, 2026 Boda Liu

Abstract This paper reexamines Husserl’s analyses of kinesthesia and bodiliness, challenging two dominant interpretations in phenomenological scholarship: first, that Husserl’s analysis of kinesthesia implies an idea of embodied subjectivity; and second, that the distinction between Leib and Körper provides a clear conceptual foundation for his theory of embodiment. Through a close reading of...