The study aims to describe the perception of seniors on the exercise of citizenship in the light of the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, based on the notion of the sexed body and the other's body. Discloses was from the participation of 13 elderly, members of acquaintance groups in the city of Jequié/BA, which produced experiential descriptions in three focus group meetings, during the month o...

“...aesthetic perception too opens up a new spatiality, that the picture as a work of art is not in the space which it inhabits as a physical thing and as a coloured canvas. That the dance evolves in an aimless and unorientated space, that it is a suspension of our history, that in the dance the subject and his world are no longer in opposition, no longer stand out one against the background of...

In this article I demonstrate how listeners understand musical processes with their bodies, and how their gestures can be used to build analytical models. Specifically, I draw on the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue that situated, active listeners project their motor intentional gestures inside music, where they reconstitute the very nature of musical space and its objects accord...

This article aims to establish the relationship between philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and artist Robert Delaunay regarding corporeality visibility of work art. These notions are developed by in his text The eye spirit together with theory inobjective art Delaunay, expressed From cubism . Moreover, explicitly refers this text, so it is possible outline a correspondence both, especially, thei...

We propose that Frantz Fanon’s analysis of language develops an immanent critique Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. Fanon transforms the phenomenological method to account for Black speaking subjects’ experience through a sociogenic language. First, while French colonial has robust diachronic dimension, colonized, Creole, is relegated synchrony without diachrony, as historical past erased....

This paper investigates Alfred North Whitehead and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s attempts to develop a historical, dynamic ontology (a “process ontology”, according the former, an “ontology of flesh” for latter). The claim is that their originality lies in methods adopted reach such ontologies, which show strong similarities. Both authors based research on nature, conceived as “the leaf Being”, perce...

This essay interprets the work of the German choreographer Pina Bausch with the help of phenomenological examinations by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, and Martin Heidegger. Pina Bausch’s choreography not only shares basic themes like the everyday, the body, and moods with phenomenology, but they also yield similar results in overcoming traditional dualist frameworks. Rather than bein...

This study illuminates existential consequences of being closely related to a person suffering from aphasia. Seventeen close relatives were interviewed and their narratives were interpreted with inspiration from Ricoeur, Levinas, Husserl, Winnicot, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The emerging interpretations resulted in four themes that illuminate a life characterized by lost freedom, staying, a new...

Esse artigo se propõe a estabelecer um diálogo entre as contribuições de Marcel Mauss e Maurice Merleau-Ponty, no concernente às analises engendradas respeito do corpo, que faz à luz da corporeidade, instrumento relacional com o entorno. Inobstante, fundamentação principiológica ambos, os dois propuseram superação egrégio vértice inaugurado por Descartes – pensamento matéria. Ademais, texto pre...

The aim of this study is to know the meaning, for the family, of the daily contact with a member user of crack. This is a qualitative, descriptive and phenomenological study, whose empirical data collection was based on phenomenological interviews with two families of crack dependents in a Psychosocial Care Center on Alcohol and other Drugs. The analysis and categorization of experiential descr...