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<p>In this essay we seek to clarify the meaning and theoretical implications of the statement by Merleau-Ponty contained in his 1953 course, <italic>Le Monde Sensible et le Monde de l’Expression,</italic> according to which movement is ‘revealing of being’. This analysis takes up and comments on chapter 7 of <italic>Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology</italic> (dedicated to the issue of movement) and related experiments in particular. We will show that Merleau-Ponty’s idea of ontology of movement emerges from his examination of several exemplary cases. This method of analysis brings to light an idea of similar phenomenology compatible with an experimental phenomenology.</p>
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In this essay we seek to clarify the meaning and theoretical implications of the statement by Merleau-Ponty contained in his 1953 course, Le Monde Sensible et le Monde de l’Expression, according to which movement is ‘revealing of being’. This analysis takes up and comments on chapter 7 of Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology (dedicated to the issue of movement) and related experiments in particular. We will show that Merleau-Ponty’s idea of ontology of movement emerges from his examination of several exemplary cases. This method of analysis brings to light an idea of similar phenomenology compatible with an experimental phenomenology.

‘Movement as Disclosive of Being’ Merleau-Ponty: From the Psychology of Gestalt to the Analysis of Movement

Gestalt Theory

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In this essay we seek to clarify the meaning and theoretical implications of the statement by Merleau-Ponty contained in his 1953 course, Le Monde Sensible et...

‘Movement as Disclosive of Being’ Merleau-Ponty: From the Psychology of Gestalt to the Analysis of Movement

Published Online: Aug 17, 2020

Page range: 195 - 204

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2020-0016

Keywords
Phenomenology, perception, movement, Merleau-Ponty, ontology

© 2020 Damiano Cantone et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

‘Movement as Disclosive of Being’ Merleau-Ponty: From the Psychology of Gestalt to the Analysis of Movement

Published Online: Aug 17, 2020

Page range: 195 - 204

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2020-0016

KeywordsPhenomenology, perception, movement, Merleau-Ponty, ontology

© 2020 Damiano Cantone et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Phenomenology, perception, movement, Merleau-Ponty, ontology