Ontology as phenomenology: the rectilinear Merleau-Ponty

Authors

  • Jeovane Camargo

Keywords:

Language, Being, Not-being, Body, Consciousness

Abstract

What is the purpose of the self-criticism that Merleau-Ponty addresses to his texts from the 1940s? How we can understand the alleged dualism present in Phenomenology of perception (1945)? What kind of consciousness Merleau-Ponty calls "mythology" in 1964? In which sense can we understand the term not-being in 1945, which appears to be the main point to which Merleau-Ponty‘s self-criticism is directed? In contrast with some scholars who try to show that there is an exteriority between being and not-being inPhenomenology of perception, I try to show that in 1945 being and not-being are two names for the same notion: temporality or expressiveness. Thus, the criticism of The visible and the invisible (1964) is directed to another point and Phenomenology of perception cannot be read as a simple "psychology" text anymore.

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Published

2013-09-29

How to Cite

CAMARGO, J. Ontology as phenomenology: the rectilinear Merleau-Ponty. Controvérsia (UNISINOS) - ISSN 1808-5253, São Leopoldo, v. 8, n. 2, p. 38–52, 2013. Disponível em: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/controversia/article/view/5531. Acesso em: 21 may. 2025.

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2012)

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