Avatar şi alteritate în Baroc
Avatar and Alterity in the Baroque Period

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is the intricate problematic pertaining to the approach to body, as acquired by the baroque sensitivity during one of the most controversial ages in the history of human spirituality. Our objective is to provide the reader with a refined insight of the significances attributed to the body, springing out of the strong belief that the entire European body perception was to be altered according to this mentality. Our attempt is towards a rebound motion leading to a deeper understanding of the self, returning and resorting to ego as an ultimate citadel aggressively manifest in contemporary society. We deal with a rethinking of body significances, placing it under the sign of the unknown realm called monism, as Leibnitz called it. It was but natural for such a venturous analysis to bear with a principia limitation: details are to be slightly ignored whereas more significant processes are to be explored together with their inner dynamics and reciprocal interactions. We aim at forging a full-fledged view of the body and soul relationship during a time of incoherence characterized by the same lack of homogeneity and persistence of philosophical and religious ideas as today.

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