Abstract
This essay focuses on two central concerns of contemporary phenomenology, i.e. ”life-world” and ”body”, to clarify the major shift having taken place within the phenomenological movement since its beginnings. Also, by explaining phenomena related to our bodily existence and to sense perception, it gives an introduction to the philosophical contribution by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Bernhard Waldenfels. In its third part, this essay draws on some concrete examples taken from the field of avant-garde art to illustrate the above mentioned issues in their relation with aesthetics. Finally, a new reading of the method of ”descriptive phenomenology” in the sense of a continuous hermeneutic process called ”transformative phenomenology” is proposed, by the way giving some hints regarding its connection with transcultural thinking and ethics.
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