Crítica e sujeito na fenomenologia da percepção de Merleau-Ponty

Abstract

The ways by which the modern thought - namely that belonging to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - intervenes in the construction of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, not only illustrates the importance that the french philosopher gives to the theme of history of philosophy, as they are also signatories of the double effort that animates his project: scrutinize the present using the legacy left by the past and to see indistinctly, through the slits and fissures in buildings erected within the modern philosophy, the future tasks of the thought, the challenges with which the philosophical reason will need reckoning. This dissertation aims to make explicit the ways through which this double effort are present in Merleau-Ponty's work, particularly in his doctorate thesis, titled Phenomenology of perception. Our intention is to examine the statute of the critic towards modern reason in a structural problem which, as we will try to show, is a example of the relation between Merleau-Ponty's project and philosophical modernity: the problem of subjectivity. Our hypotheses is that the criticism to modern reason, found in Merleau-Ponty's book - conducts to the acknowledge of the inalienable presence of the world in the horizon of philosophical reason and to the consequent definition of the phenomenon of the perception as a pre-reflexive adhesion of the subject to the world, as a original opening to being - permits Merleau-Ponty to put back the problem of subjectivity in new basis, not anymore those provided by the cartesian paradigm of substantiality, but those that start from experience of the body, from language and from aesthetic expression