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The World of Perception / Reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty

By Sabine Popp

… the world which is revealed to us by our senses and in everyday life

… the world in which we live, yet which we are always prone to forget

… access to things as they really are

… knowledge by approximation

… (one) can no longer draw an absolute distinction between the space and the things which occupy it

… things can change simply by being moved 


We are once more learning to see the world around us, the same world which we had turned away from in the conviction that our senses had nothing worthwhile to tell us, sure as we were that only strictly objective knowledge was worth holding onto. We are rediscovering our interest in the space in which we are situated.

… reason must acknowledge that its world is ( ) unfinished