Aloof bodies: interpretation of the concept of the corporality in the postmodernism

In this article contemporary conceptions of corporality dealing with the topic of human alienations from body are considered. Relevance of this subject is determined by a new turn of a traditional problem of the relations between human soul and body, proceeding not from the ontological bases, but from the socio-cultural ones. The author's definition of corporality's conception is given. The corporality is understood as the structure which contains three topos - natural “body” of an individual, a body as an individual artificial construct and a collective body as socio-cultural integrity. In course of the research the authors analyze corporality's conceptions of the leading postmodern philosophers - Foucault, Agamben, Nancy, Sloterdijk. Those social institutes which influence the formation of the contemporary person alienated from their own body - institutes of health care, education, law, economy, science are revealed. The peculiarity of postmodern thought consists in failure of steady ideas about a body and formation of a new image of a body - a body as a stream essentially unstable and not capable to be recorded. Taking into account their ideas, we make a hypothesis that if the person remains alone with the physical reality, he cuts off the symbolical plan of the corporality which is necessary for overcoming body's alienation.