Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. His philosophy purveys sustained argument for the foundational role that perception plays in understanding the world as well as engaging with the world. Like the other major phenomenologists Merleau-Ponty expressed his philosophical insights in writings on art, literature, linguistics, and politics.
Merleau-Ponty—Imaginary and vision
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P. 162
Bibliographic Reference:
- M. Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and mind,” The primacy of perception (1964): 159–190.
Merleau-Ponty—Painting
"Essence and existence, imaginary and real, visible and invisible—painting scrambles all our categories, spreading out before us its oneiric universe of carnal essences, actualized resemblances, mute meanings."
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P. 165
Bibliographic Reference:
Merleau-Ponty, M. “Eye and mind.” The primacy of perception (1964): 159–190.
Merleau-Ponty—Things and bodies
"Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is one of them. It is caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself. Things are an annex or prolongation of itself; they are incrusted in its flesh, they are part of its full definition; the world is made of the very stuff of the body."
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P. 161
Bibliographic Reference:
Merleau-Ponty, M. “Eye and mind.” The primacy of perception (1964): 159–190.
Merleau-Ponty—Play
"my body simultaneously sees and is seen. That which looks at all things can also look at itself and recognize, in what it sees, the "other side" of its power of looking."
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P. 161
Bibliographic Reference:
Merleau-Ponty, M. “Eye and mind.” The primacy of perception (1964): 159–190.
Merleau-Ponty—Embodiment + vision
"The visible world and the world of my motor projects are both total parts of the same Being.
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P. 161
Bibliographic Reference:
Merleau-Ponty, M. “Eye and mind.” The primacy of perception (1964): 159–190.
Merleau-Ponty—Embodiment
"We cannot imagine how a mind could paint. It is by lending his body to the world that the artist changes the world into paintings... that body which is an intertwining of vision and movement."
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P. 160
Bibliographic Reference:
Merleau-Ponty, M. “Eye and mind.” The primacy of perception (1964): 159–190.
Merleau-Ponty—Vision
"Only the painter is entitled to look at everything without being obliged to appraise what he sees. For the painter, we might say, the watchwords of knowledge and action lose their meaning and force."
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P. 160
Bibliographic Reference:
Merleau-Ponty, M. “Eye and mind.” The primacy of perception (1964): 159–190.
Merlot Ponty—Cybernetics and Operations
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P. 159
Bibliographic Reference:
Merleau-Ponty, M. “Eye and mind.” The primacy of perception (1964): 159–190.
