Photo Walkthrough of Maurice Merleau Ponty's Existentialism

A walkthrough of Maurice Merleau Ponty's Existentialist views via photographic exploration and explanation.

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[talktolrw]

Interesting! You bring up some very good points. This was actually a project I did when I was a senior in high school during my one week intro to existentialism and Merleau-Ponty. We were asked to do a photo essay outlining the chapter or two we read of his work, so this is the product of that project. Not an in-depth look in any way, but more of a concentrated analysis of the chapters I read. I never took it down after we finished the class, which is why it's still on YouTube.

[uremove]

I wanted to add a 5th, (I ran out of space) - Probably the most important!

5) We cope in the world NOT by making mental representations of things, but through our inter-corporeality. We are OF the world, not just IN it. We understand each other's expressions (through mirror neurons) because your expression is instinctively mirrored by my body. As we become more skilled at using stuff, we become less conscious of how we are doing it - we flow! MP called that "sedimentation".

[uremove]

Great visuals & music!

However, I wouldn't sum up Merleau-Ponty in those 4 points..?

Maybe something more like:

1) Our perception has neither subject nor object - these arise by reflection.

2) Through our coping, our directedness is towards gaining "maximum grip" of our perceptual world, which simultaneously summons our attention.

3) Our body, or "flesh" is the chiasm between touching (empiricism) and being touched (phenomenology).

4) Perception comes to us a whole gestalt, not in bits. OK?