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By Douglas Low
Few writers' unfinished works are thought of between their most vital, yet such is the case with Merleau-Ponty's The noticeable and the Invisible. What exists of it's a mere starting, but it bridged modernism and postmodernism in philosophy. Low makes use of fabric from a few of Merleau-Ponty's later works because the foundation for final touch. operating from this fabric and the philosopher's personal define, Low offers how this crucial paintings might have seemed had Merleau-Ponty lived to accomplish it.
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It is one of them. It has a place among them where they rest. And yet we also understand “why at the same time we are separated from them by all the thickness of the look and the body; it is that this distance is not the contrary of this proximity, it is deeply consonant with it, it is synonymous with it. It is that the thickness of the flesh between the seer and the thing is constitutive for the thing of its visibility as for the seer of his corporeity” (VI 135). We are separate from them because of the thickness of the body, because there is no pure mind or consciousness that would form a complete union or coincidence with the thing.
The visible can thus fill me . . only because I who see it do not see it from the depths of nothingness, but from the midst of itself” (VI 113). And this being the case, “facts and essences can no longer be distinguished . . because . . the alleged facts, the spatiotemporal individuals, are from the first mounted on the axes, the pivots, the dimensions, the generality of my body, and the ideas are therefore already encrusted in its joints” (VI 114). This claim leads to the following conclusion: We never have before us pure individuals, .
Language is diacritical because visual experience is gestaltlike and therefore diacritical. Hence the problem of language is, if one likes, only a regional problem— that is, if we consider the ready-made language, the secondary and empirical operation of translation, of coding and decoding, the artificial languages, the technical relation between a sound and a meaning which are joined only by express convention and are therefore ideally isolable. (VI 126) In other words, language can be and often is treated as a special topic, and as an object, for study by the empirical sciences.