The Body between Life and Corpse

Abstract

The article attempts to follow the development of philosophical thought on the body and life in Nietzsche’s, Foucault’s, and Deleuze’s philosophy, more precisely and paradoxically, via the motive of the corpse, as found in their body of texts. The section on Nietzsche inquires into the relationship between the corpse and madness, the section on Foucault on the relationship between the corpse and power, and the section on Deleuze, finally, on the relationship between the corpse and life.