You Are Not IN Your Body. You ARE Your Body: Merleau-Ponty
Merleau-Ponty put the lived body at the center. You'll work through flesh, chiasm, and what it means to perceive from inside a body.
Steps
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- Reading· ~11 min
The Handshake with the World: Perception and Reversibility
Merleau-Ponty's mature philosophy and among the most beautiful thought-experiments in phenomenology: what happens when your left hand touches your right.
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- Reading· ~9 min
What Embodiment Changes: Art, Language, Other People
Why Merleau-Ponty's philosophy isn't just an abstract revision, it transforms how we understand expression, communication, and what it means to encounter another person.
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- Text Explore· ~8 min
Motor Intentionality and the Body Schema
Explore Merleau-Ponty's core texts on the body as knowing subject.
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- Argument Map· ~10 min
From 'I Think' to 'I Can'
Map Merleau-Ponty's philosophical argument from embodied cognition to the ontology of flesh.
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- Dialogue· ~10 min
Dialogue: Is Your Body Really Thinking?
Challenge whether motor intentionality is genuinely a form of intelligence, or just a clever metaphor.
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- Reflection· ~8 min
Reflection: What Your Body Already Knows
Attend to the intelligence in your own body, and what it would mean to trust it more.
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