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The book brings the needed answers to questions relating to the issues of body and corporeality that Heidegger allegedly failed to adequately thematise, a fact for which he was reproached since the publication of his work Being and Time. Heidegger did not deal with the issues of body, as he was not interested in any privileged being. For him, the body does not represent an ‘object’ worthy of philosophical investigation because, first and foremost, it can only be described but not explained, which precludes any serious attempt to develop something like body ‘science’. Therefore, expecting a ‘body phenomenology’ from Heidegger means misunderstanding his philosophical intention. Two Nietzsche lectures from the 1930s and two Zollikon Seminars, organised by Heidegger and the Swiss psychiatrist Medard Boss in 1965, served as a basis for the recreation of Heidegger’s putative conception of body and corporeality. Corporeality becomes a manner of human being in a shared world, whose purpose is ‘manifesting gestures of appearance’. According to the existential analytics of Being and Time, the body would fall under the category of ‘disposedness’.