Merleau-Ponty's Husserlian Heresy
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https://doi.org/10.65828/n18d3f42Keywords:
transcendental phenomenology - Husserl- existential phenomenology-Abstract
This paper examines some of the basic differences and contradictions between Husserlian phenomenology and existential thinking, thereby questioning the possibility or impossibility of elaborating a genuinely ‘existential phenomenology’. I will argue that an answer to this question may be found within the post-Cartesian philosophy of Maurice Merleau- Ponty.
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