An “I” Locked in a Barrel “Would Not Know How to Speak”: Field of Experience, Dialogue, and Encroachment in Merleau-Ponty
This article will illustrate the development of the theme of language within Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Prose of the World (1973) in relation to Saussurean linguistics and Hendrik Pos’s phenomenology of language. Focusing on the concept of encroachment (empiètement) and on the inter-penetration bet...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Histoire Épistémologie Langage |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/hel/3341 |
| Summary: | This article will illustrate the development of the theme of language within Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Prose of the World (1973) in relation to Saussurean linguistics and Hendrik Pos’s phenomenology of language. Focusing on the concept of encroachment (empiètement) and on the inter-penetration between one’s own body and the other’s body, it will illustrate the strategic role played by an open conception of the field of experience and of history’s dynamic sedimentation. |
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| ISSN: | 0750-8069 1638-1580 |