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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Merleau-Ponty: lived body « Previous | |Next »
August 23, 2004

Trevor,
you may may be puzzled about my references to lived body as a way out of the flybottle of your understanding of Australian materialism. The idea of lived body comes from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. It can be used to overcome the uselessness of Australian materialism, which is little more than the old Greek atoms in the void souped up with modern mathematical physics.

What Merleau-Ponty opens up is the idea that it is primarily through our lived body (as felt and experienced by the human subject) that we have access to, and an anchorage in, the world of particular places.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 6:20 PM | | Comments (0)
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