The being-cyclist: An essay in existential anthropology
The being-cyclist: An essay in existential anthropology

Summary/Abstract: Critical of empirical forms of anthropology which have missed the singularity of beings, thispaper defines the conditions for the observation of a human being. It would be then up toexistential anthropology to do this work. To observe in detail a human being and to under‑stand its existential grammar, the author considers necessary to return to the lexical field ofthe contour, the consistency, the stability. In a heuristic way, the paper solicits two unexpectedsupports: a drawing of Marcel Duchamp representing a cyclist and the notion of ball, proposedby Parmenides, that he associates to the one of volume of being. The paper then becomes a re‑flection on the movement in cycles to think an existential anthropology of the being humanriveted to itself. The result is a move away from the foundations of existentialism, which, indifferent ways, value a being in the process of wrenching away from itself, in disequilibrium oras a “mystery” that cannot be looked at.

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