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
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Merleau-Ponty, M. “Eye and mind.” The primacy of perception (1964): 159–190.