Buch | Kapitel
The lived body (phenomenology of perception) and the flesh (the visible and the invisible)
pp. 49-57
Abstrakt
This chapter takes the reader into the late Merleau-Ponty (The Visible and the Invisible) where a visionary description of the relations between man and world is put forth in terms of "the flesh." The goal of his last work was to bring the insights from his earlier (phenomenological) work to an ontological level. For example, what does it really mean to see? I find myself "with" the thing at the end of my gaze, but it is somehow also "in" me. The mysterious way we "have" the world is described in this last work a unitary movement where man and the world become together in one event. In order to understand this, the concepts of "chiasm", "reversibility", "écart/dehiscence", "the visible" and "the invisible" are presented. All the chapters on Merleau-Ponty's philosophy ( Chaps. 2, 3 and this chapter) contain extensive quotes from his texts and explanatory footnotes.
Publication details
Published in:
Bullington Jennifer (2013) The expression of the psychosomatic body from a phenomenological perspective. Dordrecht, Springer.
Seiten: 49-57
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6498-9_4
Referenz:
Bullington Jennifer (2013) The lived body (phenomenology of perception) and the flesh (the visible and the invisible), In: The expression of the psychosomatic body from a phenomenological perspective, Dordrecht, Springer, 49–57.


