Merleau-Ponty: from the Primacy of Perception to a Priority of the perceived World

Abstract

This paper will attempt to show the transition point in Merleau-Pontyan thought between a primacy of perception and an ontological rehabilitation of the sensible. This point refers to an ontological priority of the perceived world, which reveals the passage towards an ontology of the perceived, towards the description of the being of the perceived. In this way, we will be able to account for the author’s own exposition of the way in which perception can be understood as a true access to being: the primacy of perception would comprise a properly ontological priority. The main objective of this research will be the exposition of a conceptual network that allows us to account for the perceptive phenomenon that not only provides us with the world, as it appears to the subject, but also tries to go beyond the visible aspect, it will try to account for the being of what is perceived. To express, in short, this circuit of incorporation where both the being and the subject are inserted, where there is a co-perception between the two.
Keywords: perception, world, phenomenology, subjet, ontology.