Being-In-Clothes-In-The-World: Why We Are Clothed and Clothing Beings

Swantje Martach’s essay applies the founding concepts of the philosophical thought of Heidegger and Merleau-Pontyfrom the starting point of In-der-Welt Sein – “being-in-the-world” – and continues to the definition of “being-clothed”, “being-in-clothes”. This kind of definition enables commonly understood experiences and human actions to be explained and new insights into them to be developed such as, for example, the reason why human beings pull down their sleeves, ripping them, when they are afraid or feel insecure.