From Vision to Visibility. Merleau-Ponty’s Contributions to the Iconic Turn

Abstract

One of the tasks of philosophy consists, according to Merleau-Ponty, in relearning how to see the world. This article intends to show the labyrinth of difficulties into which one enters when one asks oneself what it is to see, what one sees and who or what the sighted is. This and the visible sprout from the same carnal visibility that interweaves them: motricity and reversibility will be key to approach this relationship, as well as to offer a new vision of the image that entails reciprocity between the real and the imaginary.