Openness

In this article, we present a reading of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology through the concept of openness upon the world. Through this reading, we show how the concept is important throughout his work, and we demonstrate the concept’s centrality as an organizing metaphor for his conception of subjectivity and perception. With ‘openness upon the world’ as his explicit basis, he attempts an ontology in his late works that more radically transcends the subject-object dichotomy. These developments facilitate a renewed account of perception and, in turn, give a further ontological grounding for a psychological account of perception and subjectivity

Centrality · Metaphor · Ontology · Perception · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Subjectivity · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre