En el presente trabajo se busca problematizar vínculo entre cuerpo danzante y la técnica, entendida como normatividad que guía los movimientos, a luz del problema general de expresión. A partir las propuestas desarrolladas por Maurice Merleau-Ponty en Lo visible lo invisible Jean-Luc Nancy Corpus, pretende analizar relación con su entorno espacial vistas afirmar un exceda al cuerpo-cosa ello ha...

INTRODUCTION Merleau-Ponty (French phenomenological philosopher, born in 1908 and deceased in 1961) refers to habit in various passages of his Phenomenology of Perception as a relevant issue in his philosophical and phenomenological position. Through his exploration of this issue he explains both the pre-reflexive character that our original linkage with the world has, as well as the kind of “u...

“Further Considerations of Alienation” attempts to expand upon an earlier essay entitled “Merleau-Ponty and a Reconsideration of Alienation.” From the point of view of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, this new essay considers modernist rationality and the postmodernist free play of language as forms of alienation. The essay attempts to show that Merleau-Ponty joins the company of Marx, Lukács, Haber...

The central thesis of this paper is that contemporary theoretical physics is grounded in philosophical presuppositions that make it difficult to effectively address the problems of subject-object interaction and discontinuity inherent to quantum gravity. The core objectivist assumption implicit in relativity theory and quantum mechanics is uncovered and we see that, in string theory, this assum...

Nulty, Timothy J. 2017. ‘Gong and Fa in Chinese Martial Arts’, Martial Arts Studies 3, 51-64. Phenomenology, embodiment, Merleau-Ponty, taijiquan, skill, technique, martial arts 10.18573/j.2016.10064 The distinction between gong (skill) and fa (technique) is ubiquitous in Chinese martial arts. Utilizing Maurice MerleauPonty’s notion of ‘embodied intentionality’, I examine this distinction. I dr...

Swimming, like reading, is an immersive activity: words wash away, and arise. Engaging with writings by critics who are also swimmers, principally John Berger Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this article explores their about swimming in relation to how being water can ‘conjure stories from the water’, open up particular kinds of reflection reverie. The fluidity spaces creates imaginary that enables inte...