Abstract
In this article Ole Fogh Kirkeby outlines - what may be called - a post-postmodern theory of meaning. Where both deconstructivist and constructivist theories of the social construction of consciousness would usually place their "Ding an sich" outside their rhetorically conceived language games, Kirkeby places it inside, in - what he calls - the fusion of event and body-mind. Thus the concept of meaning is able to be framed in relation to both our historical existence and our pre-linguistic conditions of experience through a theory of action as the core concept of Phenomenology. In the consequence of this Kirkeby abolishes the two dualism’s of epistemology: the one between consciousness and world, and the one between mind and body. This is effected through the fusion of event and body-mind, and made possible with language as the medium wherein this fusion happens.
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