“The Union of the Soul and the Body”: Merleau-Ponty on Being in the World
Human Studies June 19, 2024 Dr Wehinger
Merleau-Ponty’s theory of the body is often depicted as emphasizing the distinction between the physical and the conscious dimension of the body. This distinction, however, runs the risk of recreating the tension between the physical and the conscious that is at the center of the mind-body problem. In view of this, I argue for a different interpretation of Merleau-Ponty, according to which his...