La prosa del mondo

«El lenguaje sólo sigue siendo enigmático para quien no deja de interrogarlo, o sea, de hablar de él».

Merleau-Ponty, as always, approaches common explananda in philosophy (this time mostly language and visual art) from his incredibly distinctive framework -- which I think exemplifies the highest form of naturalism, and at the same time, connects any philosophical explanada with the existential probl Leggi tutto

I read this in community college for an intro-to-philosophy class and remembered it so fondly I opted to re-read it many years later. Soooo... What it is is an investigation of language, it's primacy, it's disconnect, how (primarily) painting, literature and math can speak through language, and so fo Leggi tutto

It is rare that one encounters a work of philosophy that one loves just about every sentence of, but Merleau-Ponty's The Prose of the World, for me, is just that work of philosophy. Merleau-Ponty's exploration of linguistics the diachronic and synchronic nature of language, the phenomenology of spee Leggi tutto

language hides itself from us. Its triumph is to efface itself and to take us beyond the words to the author's very thoughts, so that we imagine we are engaged with him in a wordless meeting of minds. Once the words have cooled and been reaffixed to the page as signs, their very power to project us

Απλά δεν έχω λόγια... μακάρι όλοι μας να μπορούσαμε να αντιληφθούμε τον κόσμο έστω και λίγο με τον τρόπο που αποδίδεται η σκέψη στο βιβλιο αυτό. Και βέβαια θα ήταν όλα διαφορετικά αν η σκέψη μας αποτυπωνόταν τόσο απλά όσο ο συγγραφέας καταφέρνει να κρύψει την απλότητα πίσω από το μοναδικό ύπνος του. Leggi tutto