Merleau-Ponty and the philosophy of the sensible as literature

Authors

  • Martín Buceta Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Academia Nacional de Ciencias ; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46553/tab.16.2020.p25-39

Keywords:

Merleau-Ponty, philosophy, literature, sensible, expression

Abstract

The article examines the possibility of identifying an incipient philosophy of the sensible as literature exhibited in the last period of Merleau-Ponty´s works. A philosophy understood in the terms of literature is a project that the philosopher foretells but which he does not achieve because of his sudden death. The aim of the article will be to propose three essential axes to elaborate this philosophy: 1. The philosophy of the sensible as a field of creation, 2. A philosophy that appeals to the literary use of language, and 3. The philosopher-writer subject of the philosophy of the sensible as literature. We will use the unfinished Merleau-Ponty´s diptych, composed of The Prose of the World and The Visible and the Invisible, and the two courses on literature dictated by him: Recherches sur l’usage littéraire du langage and Le problème de la parole, to trace these key aspects. The article examines the possibility of identifying an incipient philosophy of the sensible as literature exhibited in the last period of Merleau-Ponty´s works. A philosophy understood in the terms of literature is a project that the philosopher foretells but which he does not achieve because of his sudden death. The aim of the article will be to propose three essential axes to elaborate this philosophy: 1. The philosophy of the sensible as a field of creation, 2. A philosophy that appeals to the literary use of language, and 3. The philosopher-writer subject of the philosophy of the sensible as literature. We will use the unfinished Merleau-Ponty´s diptych, composed of The Prose of the World and The Visible and the Invisible, and the two courses on literature dictated by him: Recherches sur l’usage littéraire du langage and Le problème de la parole, to trace these key aspects.

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Author Biography

Martín Buceta, Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Academia Nacional de Ciencias ; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de San Martín (UNSAM), becario posdoctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) y autor del libro Merleau-Ponty lector de Proust: lenguaje y verdad y de diversos artículos en relación a su línea de investigación actual que gira en torno a la posibilidad de elaborar una filosofía de lo sensible a partir de un acercamiento fenomenológico al lenguaje literario. Es profesor adjunto de “Fenomenología y hermenéutica” en la carrera de Filosofía y de “Fundamentos de filosofía” en la carreara de Psicología de la Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (UCES).

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12/10/2020

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Buceta, M. (2020). Merleau-Ponty and the philosophy of the sensible as literature. Tábano, (16), 25–39. https://doi.org/10.46553/tab.16.2020.p25-39

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No. 16 (2020)

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