Salmeri Alma Lia

Through the Body: Narrative, Vulnerability, and the Virtual Potential of Lived Experience

Open Philosophy September 21, 2026 Salmeri Alma Lia

Narrative is often said to be reparative, yet this claim remains conceptually unstable so long as narration is treated as a post-hoc representation of an already constituted experience. Drawing on a Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the lived body, this article argues that narrative is better understood as an embodied practice of expression through which temporal and affective orientations are...