Cuerpo vivido y hábito: contribuciones de Maine de Biran a la fenomenología contemporánea
Pensamiento Revista de investigación e información filosófica August 28, 2026 DOI: 10.14422/pen.v82.i319.y2026.006 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that Maine de Biran's philosophy, particularly his concepts of effort and the distinction between passive and active habits, offers valuable insights for the phenomenology of the lived body, and proposes that these ideas can inform interdisciplinary research on contemporary issues. |
Abstract
This paper analyses the relationship between the concepts of lived body and habit as fundamental elements for understanding our relationship with the world. Based on the works of Maine de Biran, a little-known and little-read 19th-century French philosopher, the concepts of body, effort and habit are explored as a contribution to the dialogue with French phenomenology. First, a brief introduction to the concept of the lived body, widely explored in contemporary phenomenology, is presented. Then, in the second section, the concepts of body and effort present in Biran’s philosophy are analysed in depth. In the third section, the concept of habit developed by Maine de Biran is presented and analysed, distinguishing between passive and active habits, as well as their effects on bodily experience. Finally, by way of conclusion, the fundamental contributions of Maine de Biran’s philosophy to the phenomenology of the body and habit are highlighted, and some lines of interdisciplinary research addressing current problems in the field are suggested.