ABSTRACT
Two small books, light in their weight but heavy in their common gravity, confront one another: Corpus and Ethics of the Spread Body. Ethics of the Spread Body, then: The human body always remains animal, even manipulable, in the medical context – as the clinical or reclining (klinein) body, on the hospital bed more so than anywhere else. Christianity is not, for the believer and even less so for the philosopher, a simple matter of certitude, be it negative or positive. From Corpus to Ethics of the Spread Body, there is an identical intention, even though the ways of resolution might be different. The construct is therefore prosecuted, confronted with the described or rather what “ex-scribes itself.” The reference is nevertheless important enough to require emphasis. Spread, exposed – extended in any case the body spreads the reader out: it withdraws them from the assumption and subsumption in an interiority gathered up on itself.
