Rereading the <i>Phenomenology</i>’s Recasting of Perception: The Path to a Differing and Interwoven Temporality, Imaginal, and Poetic Ontology
The point of this Special Issue of <i>Philosophies</i> and of this essay is to look deeply into Merleau-Ponty’s <i>Phenomenology of Perception</i>, published in 1945, and to “read backwards” from the later works (whether published, transcripts of the later lectures, or the un...
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2025-02-01
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| Summary: | The point of this Special Issue of <i>Philosophies</i> and of this essay is to look deeply into Merleau-Ponty’s <i>Phenomenology of Perception</i>, published in 1945, and to “read backwards” from the later works (whether published, transcripts of the later lectures, or the unpublished notes) in order to find the inchoate ideas that were already present in the <i>Phenomenology</i> that was to be developed into the series of ideas of the later ontology of the flesh of the world. The presence of these inchoate ideas is subtle and not as clearly developed as in the later works, but now we can see them more clearly. The dispersed, decentered, and intermittent sense of self, the circulation of sense into the depth of the world, the radical temporality of institution, the latency of sense, the imaginal lining of all perception and its role in Being, the invisibility of the visible and the poetic flesh ontology will be touched upon in this essay as all of them are developments of the initial move in the <i>Phenomenology</i> to make perception the access to the real. This essay will go further than the many recent interpretations that look at some of these developing ideas to articulate that this is a <i>necessary trajectory</i> from Merleau-Ponty’s starting point in the Phenomenology of Perception and that all these phenomena to which these ideas point <i>can only come forward in their interrelated interwovenness</i>. This would mean that all these strands are integral to the chiasmatic nature of the flesh of the world. |
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| ISSN: | 2409-9287 |