O corpo como expressão e carne: texturas do corpo na filosofia de Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Abstract

Our research has as central theme of corporeality in Merleau-Ponty, considering the expression and flesh notions articulated to the body and brought in some of his works. Our argument is based on the assertion that the body gains distinction and philosophical thickness along the Merleau-Ponty thought experiment. In order to emphasize the strength of its proposal and the contrast with certain philosophical tradition, initially present understanding the body in Descartes, without losing sight the philosophical and medical context of the XVI e XVII centuries. In a second move, we follow the phenomenological description of the body proposed by Merleau-Ponty in Phénoménologie de la perception, in order to reveal the textures of the body itself and its modes of expression in the world, and his incisive criticism of the Cartesian philosophy and its impact an empirical science. In the third and final movement of this research, we expose certain plots of esthesiological body articulated to the Merleau- Ponty’s ontological project, with reference to his last writings, L’oeil et l’esprit and Le visible et l’invisible