An “I” Locked in a Barrel “Would Not Know How to Speak”: Field of Experience, Dialogue, and Encroachment in Merleau-Ponty
Marina de Palo
Histoire Épistémologie Langage 2023 DOI: 10.4000/hel.3341 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that the theme of language in Merleau-Ponty's The Prose of the World develops through engagement with Saussurean linguistics and Hendrik Pos's phenomenology of language, and that the concept of "encroachment" (empiètement), together with the inter-penetration of one's own and the other's body, plays a strategic role in an open conception of the field of experience and history's dynamic sedimentation. |
Abstract
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 conception of the field of experience and of history’s dynamic sedimentation.