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Abstract: As in religious traditions, the soul organizes entirely the human condition horizon; postmodern culture sets the body as the organizing centre of its sacralizing mechanisms. Some even speak about a cult and about ritual mechanisms having a religious charge. On the one hand, the body is attributed a symbolic dimension surfacing in the fight against the finite and life's lack of meaning. On the other, turning the body into a centre of the existential universe triggers a better delineation of the functions it may fulfill. An important role belongs to the networking function that crosses over the human inhabited worlds, from the physical one to the spiritual and religious one. To highlight these aspects, I called on the reflections in Aurel Codoban's communication philosophy. The new view on corporality brings the image of body as language, as communication instrument and as significant surface. Against this background, the body sets a self-concern whose consequence, symbolically, is a dialectic movement of body and soul nourishing one other and improving one another in light of authenticity.
Key words: religious traditions, postmodern religiosity, human condition, philosophy of communication, love hermeneutics, existential counseling, body as communication instrument, Aurel Codoban
1.Rediscovering the body and its sacrality
Postmoderns rediscover the body in the effort to rediscover themselves. Valorizing one's own corporality becomes part of the need to assert one's authenticity and personal identity. The body is the main element around which the human condition idea is built. It is almost impossible to describe the various individual manifestations of this condition if we attempt to ignore the fact that the human being is characterized by manifesting as a subject in a body with personal traits. As a matter of fact, the thematics of personal identity always considers, as a fundamental element of the interference with oneself and with the others, the interface of human beings' embodied nature. No matter what other elements are involved in defining humans, the body is a must. As it happened so far with the soul, the body is imagined as an intrinsic value. Thus, the body becomes a center around which the whole existence is organized, having a wide significance range. The body structures the various types of relationships aimed at valorizing the body as a...