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- Title
Perception, Normativity, and Selfhood in Merleau-Ponty: The Spatial 'Level' and Existential Space.
- Authors
Talero, Maria
- Abstract
The article presents a discussion related to perception, normativity, and selfhood in French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings. The fundamental question of "who we are" revolves uneasily around the notion of a self, a coherent, perduring frame of reference that remains constant from one day to the next, one year to another. Yet upon even casual consideration, such a conception of selfhood is challenged by the everyday experience, which reveals an undeniable mutability, a structural permeability to change, within one's sense of self.
- Subjects
MERLEAU-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961; SENSORY perception; NORMATIVITY (Ethics); LITERATURE; PHILOSOPHICAL analysis; EGOISM
- Publication
Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 3, p443
- ISSN
0038-4283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.2041-6962.2005.tb01962.x