Corporeidade: o legado de Marcel Mauss e Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Habit and embodiment in Merleau-Ponty

INTRODUCTION Merleau-Ponty (French phenomenological philosopher, born in 1908 and deceased in 1961) refers to habit in various passages of his Phenomenology of Perception as a relevant issue in his philosophical and phenomenological position. Through his exploration of this issue he explains both the pre-reflexive character that our original linkage with the world has, as well as the kind of “u...

Marcel Mauss: In Pursuit of the Whole. A Review Essay

Emile Durkheim assembled a team to promote his vision for sociology, but he and Mauss were in many ways a double act, like Marx and Engels. There was room for only one leader of the movement, so we speak of the Durkheimians and the Marxists. Mauss and Engels each assumed leadership of the movement they jointly founded after their partner’s death, but the intrinsic inequality of the partnership ...

Erratum on: Habit and embodiment in Merleau-Ponty

[This corrects the article on p. 542 in vol. 8, PMID: 25120448.].

Merleau-Ponty and the Existential Conception of Science

- ympos - ium - jou - rnal . o - rg Painting , Abstraction , Metaphysics : Merleau - Ponty and the " Invisible

idioms in terms of the "invisible." In respect of this, Merleau-Ponty suggests that modern painting has been directed toward "multiplying the systems of equivalences, toward severing their adherence to the envelope of things" (PP, 182). He does not, however, significantly develop these cryptic insights. I will now undertake such a development. Arthur Danto and others have insisted that in order...