Merleau-Ponty On Other Selves and the Human World
The Other affects us as if we were love-stricken, and we fall into the vortex of their activities in our shared world.
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This piece explores the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ideas about how our relationship to the world and to ourselves is shaped by our interactions with primordial others. "Primordial otherness" is the idea that we are not separate from the world and others but rather are intertwined with them from the very beginning. This helps Merleau-Ponty to ov…
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