Merleau-Ponty’s View of Creativity and Its Philosophical Consequences

International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (4):401-412 (1994)
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This essay discusses the role that creativity played in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception and the lived-body as well as in his phenomenology of the social world-- mainly through language. The author identifies three main examples of the philosophical importance that creativity had for Merleau-Ponty: (1) the origin of meaning, (2) the rejection of the Cartesian mind-body dualism, and (3) necessary conditions for human dignity in the relationship of culture and nature. Finally, the last of these examples and the significance of creativity are considered in the light of Merleau-Ponty's last, unfinished work, "The Visible and the Invisible"

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