Despliegue de la carne, la palabra y el rostro: de Merleau-Ponty a Lévinas
DEPLOYMENT OF FLESH, WORD AND FACE: FROM MERLEAU-PONTY TO LÉVINAS
Abstract (en)
The purpose of this article is to understand two concepts that are elusive in both philosophers, in the way that, in Lévinas, the bodily subject is a direct reference to Merleau-Ponty, however, an emphasis is made on ethics expression of the face, while that by Merleau-Ponty is, more concerned with the perceptual phenomenon of the body, but his references to the face have a sense of ethics like that which Lévinas develops. Therefore, it is important to assume an ethics of the face in Merleau-Ponty, as well as of
the body in Lévinas. Hence it is necessary to think in what sense the face involves the whole dimension of the body, meaning the “Other-incarnate-in-the-face”, as reflected the correlation between by contemporary thinkers, Emmanuel Lévinas (1905-1995) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961).
Key words: Visibility, invisible, flesh, speech, face.
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