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- Title
Seeing Faces Sartre and Imitation Studies.
- Authors
Stawarska, Beata
- Abstract
This article discusses experimental studies of facial imitation in infants in the light of Sartre's and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological theories of embodiment. I argue that both Sartre's account of the gaze of the other and Merleau-Ponty's account of the reversibility of the flesh provide a fertile ground for interpreting the data demonstrating that very young infants can imitate facial expressions of adults. Sartre's and Merleau-Ponty's accounts of embodiment offer, in my view, a desirable alternative to the dominant mentalistic interpretation of facial imitation in terms of the theory of mind.
- Subjects
SARTRE, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980; PHENOMENOLOGICAL psychology; MERLEAU-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961; IMITATIVE behavior; EXISTENTIAL psychology
- Publication
Sartre Studies International, 2007, Vol 13, Issue 2, p27
- ISSN
1357-1559
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/ssi.2007.130202