The Question of Biological Existence in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s (1908–1961) main philosophical work, Phenomenology
of Perception, is known for its detailed argument for the claim that perception, the
locus of evidence and truth, is embodied. A central part of the argument is the
analysis of the anonymous bodily life at the basis of perception. An important
but less noted claim endorsed by Merleau-Ponty in his analysis of the infrastructure
of perception is that perception rests upon instinctive operations of the perceiver’s
body.
The thesis uncovers Merleau-Ponty’s thinking of the instinctive groundlayer
of perceptual experiencing. It takes as the leading clue the term biological
existence by which Merleau-Ponty refers to the instinctive operations of the body
in Phenomenology of Perception. The thesis shows that even if the term has a scientific
connotation, Merleau-Ponty’s purpose is not to argue that a life scientific
conception of the body would reveal the ground of perception. Instead, scientific
descriptions of the body, notably the ethological characterization of instinctive
behavior, will ultimately provide means for delimiting and describing a primitive
mode of intentional lived experiencing.
The thesis consists of seven chapters. Chapter 1 is an explication of the philosophical
context of Merleau-Ponty’s early works, The Structure of Behavior and
Phenomenology of Perception, and an explication of Merleau-Ponty’s understanding
of the basic tenets of phenomenology. Chapters 2 and 3 sort out Merleau-
Ponty’s phenomenological interpretation of the scientific studies of behavior, his
conception of the organism, and the primitive behaviors of instinct and reflex.
Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 elaborate a variety of aspects of instinctive experiencing in
Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception. The work explicates and discusses
the instinctive mode of temporality, motor intentionality, affectivity and
sensibility, and it shows that a coherent line of thought is opened up by the question
of biological existence in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception.
Keywords: Merleau-Ponty, perception, instinct
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