Tag: transcendental

  • How Can the Concept of Embodiment and Intersubjectivity Be Understood in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty?

    How Can the Concept of Embodiment and Intersubjectivity Be Understood in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty?

    Introduction In the Göttingen lectures of 1907, particularly Ding und Raum (Thing and Space), Edmund Husserl delved into the relationship between the lived body and the phenomena of space and time as they are experienced, in conjunction with related discussions on sensuous perception, memory, fantasy and time consciousness, which pioneered a phenomenological tradition that went…

  • (Review) The A Priori: Merleau-Ponty’s ‘New Definition’

    (Review) The A Priori: Merleau-Ponty’s ‘New Definition’

    Shahid, S. (2022). ‘The A Priori: Merleau-Ponty’s ‘New Definition’’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 30(4), pp. 399-419. Available at: 10.1080/09672559.2022.2108102. Introduction Sidra Shahid begins her article by quoting Merleau-Ponty in his magnum opus, Phenomenology of Perception, on his claim of having pronounced a ‘new definition of the a priori’ [p. 399]. She then swiftly introduces the reader…