© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156916408X262811 he Question of the Living Body in Heidegger’s Analytic of Dasein 1 Cristian Ciocan University of Bucharest Abstract he purpose of this article is to analyze the significance of the absence of the problem of living body in Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein. In order to evaluate the occurrences of the problem of the body in Being and Time, I also refer to the context of some of Heidegger’s later work where there is to be found a sketch of an ontological investigation of the living body. I analyze then in detail the scarce occurrences of body in the fundamental ontology, showing finally that the lack of a proper phenomenological examination of living body generates a series of conceptual difficulties for the problem of Dasein’s death, precisely when the issue of dead body is at stake. Keywords Heidegger, body, life, animal, ontology, phenomenology he fact that the question of the living body is absent from the project of fundamental ontology in Being and Time 2 has been noticed by many com- mentators. 3 It has been stated that the thematic omission of the body from the 1) his article was accomplished during a fruitful period of research as Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Freiburg, hosted by Prof. Dr. Günter Figal. I wish to thank Dr. Cristina Ionescu (University of Regina) for her remarks. 2) Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1986), hereafter cited as SZ; translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson as Being and Time (New York and Evan- ston: Harper & Row, 1962), hereafter cited as BT). 3) Frank Schalow, he Incarnality of Being. he Earth, Animals, and the Body in Heidegger’s hought (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006); David R. Cerbone, “Heidegger and Dasein’s ‘Bodily Nature’: What Is the Hidden Problematic?”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 8, no. 2 (2000): 209–30; Jean Greisch, “Le phénomène de la chair: Un ‘ratage’ de Sein und Zeit,” in Dimensions de l’exister. Etudes d’anthropologie philosophique V, ed. G. Florival (Louvain: Peeters, 1994), 154–77; Michel Haar, “Le primat de la Stimmung sur la corporéité du Dasein,” Heidegger Studies 2 (1986): 67–80; Didier Franck, Chair et corps (Paris: Minuit, 1981). Research in Phenomenology 38 (2008) 72–89 www.brill.nl/rp Research in Phenomenology