The Unsettled Sense
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/9b3x8v98Keywords:
Seeing, light, spatiality, visibility, flesh, Merleau-Ponty, steadying, phenomenology, intersubjectivityAbstract
This paper considers how there is an inherent unsettledness and instability in the phenomenology of seeing. Its exploration concerning light, visibility and spatiality is grounded in the post-Husserlian phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and informed by the later hermeneutic inquiries of Heidegger. The paper also draws on the author's own experience of visual change and disturbance.
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