Merleau-Ponty and the “Great rationalism”: what does it mean - to read a classic?

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  • José Luiz B. Neves Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2009.89357

Keywords:

History of philosophy, Reading, Sedimentation, Ideality.

Abstract

This essay intends to show how the so-called “theory of reading” presented by MerleauPonty, which is based upon the meditation of other philosophers’ “unthought”, receives its proper foundation only in the context of his ontology or, more precisely, in the realm of his project’s consequences concerning the understanding of ideality. It is only in those terms that “history of philosophy” makes sense in Mearleau-Ponty´s work, after having assumed previous philosophical decisions such as the one that determines that in order to inscribe meaning in the domain of the sensitive it is necessary to underline the passive dimensions of experience that are responsible for the thematic acts of consciousness.

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Author Biography

  • José Luiz B. Neves, Universidade de São Paulo
    Mestrando no Departamento de Filosofia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo

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Published

2009-06-15

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No. 20 (2009): Merleau-Ponty e o Grande Racionalismo

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How to Cite

Neves, J. L. B. (2009). Merleau-Ponty and the “Great rationalism”: what does it mean - to read a classic?. Cadernos Espinosanos, 20, 149-163. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2009.89357