Article Title
Abstract
In this paper I re-evaluate Merleau-Ponty’s use of the term “measurant.” I argue that Merleau-Ponty’s “body as measurant” (VI 249/297) describes embodied perception as a tuning into and a dis-covering of a world that is never completely in its grasp. I dis-cover in the world objects and other persons, which sweep me away from the centre of the world and which offer me new perceptual dimensions. This relation does not necessarily imply agreement and harmony, but it suggests that all our interactions, even those that are disharmonious and ambiguous, take place in a back-and-forth of response and transformation.
Pages
166-182
Recommended Citation
Verhage, Florentien
(2008)
"The Body as Measurant of All: Dis-covering the World,"
Symposium (Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy / Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale):
Vol. 12:
Iss.
2, Article 12.
Available at:
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/symposium/vol12/iss2/12