“The body is our general medium for having a world.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
“Language transcends us and yet we speak.”
“It is no more natural and no less conventional to shout in anger or to kiss in love than to call
a table 'a table'. Feelings and passionate conduct are invented like words. Even those which like paternity seem to be part and parcel of the human make-up are in reality institutions.
It is impossible to superimpose on man a lower layer of behavior which one chooses to call
'natural' followed by a manufactured cultural or spiritual world. Everything is both manufactured
and natural in man as it were in the sense that there is not a word, not a form of behaviour
which does not owe something to purely biological being and which at the same time does
not elude the simplicity of animal life and cause forms of vital behavior to deviate from their pre-ordained direction through a sort of leakage and through a genius for ambiguity which might
serve to define man.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
a table 'a table'. Feelings and passionate conduct are invented like words. Even those which like paternity seem to be part and parcel of the human make-up are in reality institutions.
It is impossible to superimpose on man a lower layer of behavior which one chooses to call
'natural' followed by a manufactured cultural or spiritual world. Everything is both manufactured
and natural in man as it were in the sense that there is not a word, not a form of behaviour
which does not owe something to purely biological being and which at the same time does
not elude the simplicity of animal life and cause forms of vital behavior to deviate from their pre-ordained direction through a sort of leakage and through a genius for ambiguity which might
serve to define man.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
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