Language and temporality:
the philosophical questioning in Merleau-Ponty
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/con.2023.192.07Keywords:
Merleau-Ponty. Bergson. Sartre. Phenomenology. Language.Abstract
The objective of this text is to examine aspects of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy considering it distant from both phenomenological subjectivism and structuralist objectivism, positions described by Michel Foucault as determinants of the French philosophical debate of the 1950s. A possible path to describe his position is to investigate the way he works on the theme of language, both from his appropriation of Saussure’s linguistics, and in dialogue with Bergson’s reflections - this last point little explored by his interpreters. Also in relation to Bergson, I will discuss the conception of temporality present in Merleau-Ponty, distancing it, at the same time, from the way Sartre understands it. At the end of this route, I think Merleau-Ponty’s proposal for an enlarged and dialogic phenomenology will become clearer.
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