著者
田村 正資
出版者
日本メルロ=ポンティ・サークル
雑誌
メルロ=ポンティ研究 (ISSN:18845479)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, pp.1-20, 2020 (Released:2020-12-09)
参考文献数
17

Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) and Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973) had a very close relationship. However, the comparative studies of them have not been sufficiently conducted. There are several possible reasons for this situation, but the most important is that while Merleau-Ponty learned a lot from Gurwitsch about Gestalt psychology and Husserl’s phenomenology, he rarely referred to him in his texts, making it difficult to track their relationships on texts. However, there is a hopeful clue for comparative studies of them. Merleau-Ponty wrote a reading note on Gurwitsch’s The Field of Consciousness. In this article, I try to reconstruct the controversy that could be arisen between them by reading The Field of Consciousness and Merleau-Ponty’s “Reading Notes.” The purpose of this paper is 1) to elucidate Merleau-Ponty’s criticism of Gurwitsch, concerning his understanding of the identity and realism of objects given in perceptual experiences 2) to make Merleau-Ponty’s position about the themes clear in comparison with Gurwitsch’s position In the first section, as a preliminary work, I examine Gurwitsch’s “Theory of Reference” which is mainly developed in The Field of Consciousness. In the second section, through a close reading of “Reading Notes,” I try to show the essence of Merleau-Ponty’s criticism directed at the Gurwitsch’s “Theory of Reference.” In the third section, I discuss how Merleau-Ponty’s view is characterized in comparison with Gurwitsch.
著者
田村 正資
出版者
日本メルロ=ポンティ・サークル
雑誌
メルロ=ポンティ研究 (ISSN:18845479)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.25, pp.1-19, 2021 (Released:2021-11-06)
参考文献数
10

In Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty argues that the characteristics of space that we experience are not objectively definable but in fact existential. Among these characteristics, he highlights direction, depth, and movement in particular. Especially, the depth is described as the most existential property. He concludes that the depth, along with the direction, anticipates the vis-à-vis relation between subject and world. However, the existential characteristics described by Merleau-Ponty are not limited to vis-à-vis. In The Sensible World and the World of Expression, he deepens his insight into movement. In this course notes, he discusses the emergence of a world that coexists with the body. In this article, I investigate the experienced existential character of space as indicated in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception and The Sensible World and the World of Expression. This paper makes a fundamental distinction between two aspects of existential spatiality: “vis-à-vis” and “coexistence.” This article helps develop an alternative picture of Merleau-Ponty to challenge the existing picture of him by representing his search for a final understanding of spatiality through an appeal to temporality.