Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Husserl’s Origin of Geometry

Autor: Douglas Low
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Vol 31, Iss 1/2 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2155-1162
DOI: 10.5195/jffp.2023.1039
Popis: Abstract: A number of claims made by Derrida concerning Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of Husserl will be carefully considered and evaluated here. First, Derrida’s claim that Merleau-Ponty’s mis-interprets Husserl’s letter to Lévy-Bruhl will be challenged. Secondly, Derrida’s claim that his criticism of Husserl’s phenomenology can be applied just as well to Merleau-Ponty’s will be challenged. Thirdly, it is a careful consideration of textual evidence that will be used to support these challenges. Finally, Merleau-Ponty’s late lectures will take us back to the Lévy-Bruhl letter and finally to Merleau-Ponty’s own phenomenology of language, one that integrates perception and language and yet that still privileges not eidetic essences or linguistic expression but perception as its primary term.
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