Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Nie tylko mamy ciało, my jesteśmy naszym ciałem, a cała percepcja i myśl wyrastają z tego cielesnego bycia w świecie.
Umiejscowienie
Fenomenologia ciała: nie tylko mamy ciało, lecz jesteśmy naszym ciałem przeżywanym.
Kluczowe idee
- Ciało przeżywane
- Percepcja
- Cielesność (chair)
Uczniowie: Michel Foucault
Wpływ
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Merleau-Ponty found an existentialism in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and placed Hegel at the origin of Marxism, Nietzsche, phenomenology and psychoanalysis (‘L’existentialisme chez Hegel’, 1946). M. Merleau-Ponty, “L’existentialisme chez Hegel” (Les Temps modernes, 1946; Sens et non-sens, 1948)
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel › 1770–1831
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Merleau-Ponty took Saussure’s diacritical sign, meaningful only through differences from other signs, into his phenomenology of expression (‘Le langage indirect et les voix du silence’, 1952). M. Merleau-Ponty, “Le langage indirect et les voix du silence” (1952), in Signes (1960); La prose du monde (written 1951–52; publ. 1969); SEP “Maurice Merleau-Ponty”
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Ferdinand de Saussure › 1857–1913
Henri Bergson
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Merleau-Ponty valued Bergson’s return to perception and to being in the making, discussing him in his inaugural lecture (Éloge de la philosophie, 1953) and ‘Bergson se faisant’ (1959). M. Merleau-Ponty, Éloge de la philosophie (1953); “Bergson se faisant” (1959), in Signes (1960); L’union de l’âme et du corps chez Malebranche, Biran et Bergson (lectures 1947–48; publ. 1968); SEP “Maurice Merleau-Ponty”
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Henri Bergson › 1859–1941
Edmund Husserl
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Merleau-Ponty took up Husserl’s themes of lifeworld and lived body, studied in the Louvain archives (1939), and concluded that the reduction is never complete (Phenomenology of Perception, 1945). M. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception (1945), preface; “Le philosophe et son ombre” (1959), in Signes (1960); H. L. Van Breda, “Merleau-Ponty et les Archives-Husserl à Louvain” (1962); SEP “Maurice Merleau-Ponty”
Edmund Husserl › 1859–1938
Jakob von Uexküll
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In his lectures on nature (1956–60; publ. 1995) Merleau-Ponty read Uexküll’s Umwelt as a melody: animal behaviour unfolds a theme, not a sum of mechanisms. M. Merleau-Ponty, La Nature. Notes, cours du Collège de France (lectures 1956–60; ed. D. Séglard, 1995); J. von Uexküll, Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen (1934)
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Jakob von Uexküll › 1864–1944
Martin Heidegger
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Merleau-Ponty took up Heidegger’s being-in-the-world as être au monde and reinterpreted it as the pre-reflective engagement of the lived body with its world (Phenomenology of Perception, 1945). M. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception (1945); SEP “Maurice Merleau-Ponty”
Martin Heidegger › 1889–1976
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Beauvoir reviewed Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception in Les Temps modernes (1945) and in The Second Sex (1949) took up his view of the body as situation. S. de Beauvoir, review of La Phénoménologie de la perception, Les Temps modernes (1945); Le Deuxième Sexe (1949); SEP “Simone de Beauvoir”
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Simone de Beauvoir › 1908–1986
Frantz Fanon
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Fanon, who heard Merleau-Ponty in Lyon, found a ‘historico-racial schema’ beneath the phenomenological body schema in the lived experience of Black people (Peau noire, masques blancs, 1952). F. Fanon, Peau noire, masques blancs (1952); M. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception (1945); SEP “Frantz Fanon”
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Frantz Fanon › 1925–1961
Michel Foucault uczeń/uczennica
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Foucault entered the École normale supérieure in 1946 and attended Merleau-Ponty’s lectures there, among them those on the union of soul and body in Malebranche, Maine de Biran and Bergson (1947–48); Merleau-Ponty was an important early influence. SEP “Michel Foucault”; D. Eribon, Michel Foucault (1989)
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Michel Foucault › 1926–1984
Pierre Bourdieu
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Bourdieu drew on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the lived body for practical sense and bodily hexis, belief enacted in posture and gesture, not represented (Le sens pratique, 1980). P. Bourdieu, Le sens pratique (1980); M. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception (1945); SEP “Maurice Merleau-Ponty”
Pierre Bourdieu › 1930–2002
Charles Taylor
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Taylor took from Merleau-Ponty the idea of embodied agency, a pre-reflective bodily grasp of the world, against representational epistemology (‘Embodied Agency’, 1989; Retrieving Realism, 2015). C. Taylor, “Embodied Agency”, in H. Pietersma (ed.), Merleau-Ponty: Critical Essays (1989); H. Dreyfus and C. Taylor, Retrieving Realism (2015)
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Charles Taylor › ur. 1931
Iris Marion Young
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Young applied Merleau-Ponty’s motor intentionality to feminine bodily comportment, finding an ‘inhibited intentionality’ caught between ‘I can’ and ‘I cannot’ (‘Throwing Like a Girl’, 1980). I. M. Young, “Throwing Like a Girl”, Human Studies 3 (1980); M. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception (1945)
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Iris Marion Young › 1949–2006
Andy Clark
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Clark took up Merleau-Ponty’s view of the body as the subject of skilled engagement with the world for an embodied, action-oriented cognitive science (Being There, 1997). A. Clark, Being There (1997); M. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception (1945); SEP “Embodied Cognition”
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Andy Clark › ur. 1957
Krytyka
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Luce Irigaray
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Reading ‘The Intertwining – The Chiasm’, Irigaray objected that Merleau-Ponty’s flesh privileges vision and forgets its maternal, tactile origin (Éthique de la différence sexuelle, 1984). L. Irigaray, “L’invisible de la chair. Lecture de Merleau-Ponty, Le visible et l’invisible, ‘L’entrelacs – le chiasme’”, in Éthique de la différence sexuelle (1984)
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Luce Irigaray › ur. 1930
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Kartezjusz
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Merleau-Ponty rejected Descartes’ split between thinking mind and extended body, analysing perception through the lived body (Phenomenology of Perception, 1945); Eye and Mind (1961) contests his Optics. M. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception (1945); L’Œil et l’esprit (1961), part III, on Descartes’ Dioptrique; SEP “Maurice Merleau-Ponty”
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Kartezjusz › 1596–1650
Immanuel Kant
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Merleau-Ponty objected that Kant’s reflective analysis makes the world the work of a constituting intellect and passes over perception lived through the body (Phénoménologie de la perception, 1945). M. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception (1945), preface and introduction (critique of ‘intellectualism’)
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Immanuel Kant › 1724–1804
Jean-Paul Sartre
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In Adventures of the Dialectic (1955), chapter 5, Merleau-Ponty attacked Sartre’s ‘ultra-Bolshevism’ as resting on pure decision and ignoring the weight of history and institutions. M. Merleau-Ponty, Les aventures de la dialectique (1955), ch. 5 “Sartre et l’ultra-bolchevisme”; S. de Beauvoir, “Merleau-Ponty et le pseudo-sartrisme” (1955)
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Jean-Paul Sartre › 1905–1980
Dzieła
Ciało jako nasze bycie-w-świecie.
„Cielesność” świata – splot widzącego i widzianego.
Stanowisko
Merleau-Ponty placed the lived body at the centre of philosophy. We do not perceive the world as detached minds, nor are we mere physical mechanisms; we are bodily beings already engaged with the world before any reflection. Perception is the primary layer of meaning: the body “knows” how to grasp a cup or find its way in a room without explicit thought. Drawing on Gestalt psychology and studies of brain-injured patients, he showed how habit, space and gesture are bodily achievements. In his late work he spoke of the “flesh” of the world, the intertwining of seer and seen. His ideas are central to today’s embodied cognition research.
Życie i kontekst
Merleau-Ponty studied at the École normale supérieure, where he befriended Sartre and Beauvoir, and co-founded Les Temps modernes with them after the war. He taught child psychology at the Sorbonne and from 1952 held a chair at the Collège de France. His political break with Sartre came in the 1950s. He died suddenly in 1961, leaving his last work unfinished.
Dalsze główne dzieła
- The Structure of Behaviour (1942)
- Phenomenology of Perception (1945)
- Humanism and Terror (1947)
- Adventures of the Dialectic (1955)
- The Visible and the Invisible (1964)
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