The Constitution of the Own Body and Description of the Flesh in Henry’s Critique of Merleau-Ponty
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Sep 7, 2015
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The aim of this paper is to account for Michel Henry’s critique of Merleau-Ponty as regards the own body and the flesh. To that end, I start by displaying Merleau-Ponty’s position on these matters. Then I present Henry’s critique, which are focused on Phenomenology of Perception and The Visible and the Invisible. After that, I consider these objections in general and concentrate on the meaning of Merleau-Ponty’s latest work on Descartes’ dioptric, in particular. Finally, I argue that his unfinished work opens more fruitful channels of dialogue than the works criticized by Henry.
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cuerpo propio, carne, fenomenología material, Henry, Merleau-Pontyown body, flesh, material phenomenology, Henry, Merleau-Ponty
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Belvedere, C. D. (2015). The Constitution of the Own Body and Description of the Flesh in Henry’s Critique of Merleau-Ponty. Universitas Philosophica, 31(63). https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.uph31-63.ccdc
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