Virtuality and immanence in Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty

Intersections in Immanence: Spinoza, Deleuze, Negri

The connection between French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Italian political theorist Antonio Negri has drawn attention in academic publications over the last decade. For both thinkers, the philosophical concept of immanence is central to how both respectively conceptualize the world. However, in order to consider their work with regard to a metaphysical grounding, one may benefit from turnin...

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...

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

Merleau-ponty and the Phenomenology of the Body

By using the term ‘phenomenology’, Merleau-Ponty locates his work in the philosophical tradition effectively founded by Husserl, and implicitly endorses the latter’s opposition to scientific realism, to the view that one should accept the privileged status of the natural sciences as providing descriptions of the real nature of the world, however much these depart from our pre-scientific, common...