Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The World of Perception - Timothy R. Quigley

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not have allowed himself to present, at the end, his existentialismas a truth that is ‘a truth of all time’. A fallibilist doesnot undermine his fallibilism by taking a fallibilist attitude toit; for fallibilism is inconsistent with dogmatism, not confidence.So we see Merleau-Ponty, at the end of these lectures,poised to move beyond ‘modern’ thought to postmodernism– but not quite taking the step. But to say this isnot to say that these lectures do not present, in the incompleteand sketchy way of modern art, a sketch of a philosophywhose value is ‘solid and lasting’.33
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mouth. Yet anger inhabits him and i
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eing mixed together in this way. It
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eing myself, which allows me to not
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makes the mind self-critical and ke
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The preceding lectures have tried t
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‘details’ which embody its pres
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what is said and the way in which i
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works and to inspire other reasonab
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the poem, as in the perceived objec
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In this, the last lecture, I would
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seek to add to the enigmas which al
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consider freedom, socialism, democr
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crave the eternal when we are begin
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face is how, in our time and with o
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5 I discuss it at greater length in
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3 Paulhan, ‘La Peinture moderne o
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5 MAN SEEN FROM THE OUTSIDE1 Descar
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Index‘a priori’ 8-10aesthetics
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perception 6-13; and art 93-101;of
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