Abstract: A number of claims made by Derrida concerning Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of Husserl will be carefully considered and evaluated here. First, Derrida’s claim that Merleau-Ponty’s mis-interprets Husserl’s letter to Lévy-Bruhl will be challenged. Secondly, Derrida’s claim that his criticism of Husserl’s phenomenology can be applied just as well to Merleau-Ponty’s will be challenged....
Merleau-Ponty’s works were associated with Sartre’s philosophy of consciousness and supposedly surpassed, surpassed by philosophies of structure, philosophies that place individual consciousness within a social whole that molds and structures it, rather than have the social whole projected or constituted by the isolated individual, as appears in Sartre’s philosophy. The social, Merleau-Ponty...