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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Merleau-Ponty: Communicative Practice


Mickunas, Algis. (2007). Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Communicative Practice. In P. Arneson (Ed). Perspectives on Philosophy of Communication. West Layfayette: Purdue University Press.


Prevailing Claim
-       Communication is founded in historical situatedness of Human Life.
o   Farmed in a particular form of language interpretation and understanding.
o   Impossible to extricate experienced phenomena from their historical context and linguistic interpretation to make a universal claim.
o   The context includes common usage, means, norms customs validations.
o   The individuals awareness is a direct example of the context
o   A sphere of commonality.
o   Considered to be as objective as any empirical account or historical effective consciousness.
Implications of a singular culture.

Ponty’s theories transcend transmission theory.
-       Meaning is generally derived from subject.
-       For Ponty
o   Subject to object and object to subject are meaningless.
-       Ponty takes bodily primacy that is always oriented toward the phenomenological field.
o   The Phenomenal field consists of various levels.
§  Diacritical or differentiated character
·      Color and brightness are determined relative to each other.
·      Meaning is defined by differentiation between phenomena.
-       The lived experienced body signifies the very structure of the practical world, spatially and with other relationships.
-       The body functions as center, and as here.
o   It orients body and language conceptually forward.
o   Body works with all phenomena
o   Body significations are inescapable in any discourse as the very fabric of communication.

The practical world opens and oriented structure e in correlations to other placed and regions of the world.

The oriented space is intertwined with a temporal field that is equally dynamic and flexable.
The lived body, as a situation, allows for tightening and loosening of the situation and can establish a flexible space and time for itself and the phenomena that is involved.

One’s engagement is an interaction and being interrogated by the intersecting of the phenomena.


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