Aron Gurwitsch is usually considered as a minor figure within what Herbert Spiegelberg has called “The Phenomenological Movement”; his theory of the field of consciousness, however, has played a great influence on the philosophies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and is probably one of the most radical versions of a non-egological theory of consciousness. It is not by chance that...
This article will illustrate the development of the theme of language within Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Prose of the World (1973) in relation to Saussurean linguistics and Hendrik Pos’s phenomenology of language. Focusing on the concept of encroachment (empiètement) and on the inter-penetration between one’s own body and the other’s body, it will illustrate the strategic role played by an open...