Qualitative and phenomenological study based on reports of women between 48 and 55 years old with spontaneous menopause for 12 months or more. Results evidenced five theme categories that were analyzed and interpreted based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theoretical-philosophical reference framework. Among the categories that emerged from reports, the theme 'reflecting on sexuality' was emphasized,...

Ranskalainen fenomenologi Maurice Merleau-Ponty vaikuttui taidemaalarin tavasta kohdata ja tuoda näkyväksi maailma sellaisena kuin se alkuperäisessä havainnossa näyttäytyy. Saman alkuperäisen maailman äärellä työskentelevät myös filosofi, opettaja empiristi. Nykymaailman kiireessä ryntäämme usein turhan nopeasti piirtämään ilmiöille tiukkoja ääriviivoja hukkaamme moniulotteisuutta sekä vaihtoeh...

The use of language is frequently cited as a metric for moral consideration. This typically tool to exclude animal being from the realm ethics or promote human exceptionalism. Maurice Merleau-Ponty claims gesture with varying degrees complexity. Many beings convey meaning complex and abstract enough qualify according Merleau-Ponty’s parameters. Rats, despite thought vermin lower order, are some...

This article will illustrate the development of theme language within Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Prose World (1973) in relation to Saussurean linguistics and Hendrik Pos’s phenomenology language. Focusing on concept encroachment (empiètement) inter-penetration between one’s own body other’s body, it strategic role played by an open conception field experience history’s dynamic sedimentation.

The article begins with a short introduction to phenomenology with an emphasis on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose ideas have had a great impact on cultural anthropology since the 1980s, especially through notions like ‘embodiment’ and ‘radical empiricism’. The article will proceed to outline main trends in phenomenological anthropology as well as its precursors. It then dedicates itsel...

In this essay I explore a possibility of experiential synthesis of the medicalized abnormal body with its aesthetic images. A personal narrative about meeting extreme abnormality serves as an introduction into theorizing aesthetic abnormality. The essay builds its argument on the phenomenological grounds; I therefore approach corporeality with Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In turn, ...

Maurice Merleau-Ponty is best known as a philosopher of science for his detailed investigations of psychology. Perhaps because of this, the significance of his work for a broader philosophical reflection on science has been overlooked. But Merleau-Ponty intended his work as a general investigation of the epistemological and ontological status of meaning and structure. The structures discovered ...