The Physiology of Henry Thoreau

Bio-Philosophical Considerations on his Concept of Body

Abstract

This paper answers to how to understand the concept of body in Henry Thoreau. To do this, the text is divided into three moments; the first, which aims to expose how the body is initially understood as a dualism caught between the experiences of the civilizational and the wild; the second, which starts from an understanding from the experiences of the rivers to expose a liquid corporality as a point of knowledge and relationship with the world and; Finally, it

exposes the Thoreauvian philosophy of the path as a way of understanding the body from the earthly and, in turn, as becoming. All this from a philosophical interpretation that allows us to understand the corporeality in Thoreau as an experiential possibility capable of producing thought from a mystique with nature, that is, the thought of the American is a philosophy that understands being-in-the-world as an experience intimately linked to nature.