Merleau-ponty and the voice of the earth
Environmental Ethics 10 (2):101-120 (1988)
Abstract
Ecologists and environmental theorists have paid little attention to our direct, sensory experience of the enveloping world. In this paper I discuss the importance of such experience for ecological philosophy. Merleau-Ponty’s careful phenomenology of perceptual experience shows perception to be an inherently creative, participatory activity-a sort of conversation, carried on underneath our spoken discourse, between the living body and its world. His later work discloses the character of language itself as a medium born of the body’s participation with a world experienced as alive. That living world is none other than the EarthISBN(s)
0163-4275
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10.5840/enviroethics19881027
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