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Perhaps it would be too limiting to say simply that Merleau-Ponty can be included in the philosophical trend broadly called phenomenology. First of all, even the term phenomenology is not clearly defined yet as a philosophy, and it is not clear besides whether it is actually conceived of as a philosophy as such; it has been said that phenomenology is not a philosophy in the proper sense (a systematic body of speculative concepts) but is rather, a method; Max Scheler (an author also to be included in this same trend of thought) even considers it to be not exactly a method but an “attitude” before life, and the world. Merleau-Ponty does not agree with these ideas himself. For him “phenomenology allows itself to be practiced and considered a way or a style; it exists as a movement before developing into a complete philosophical consciousness.”1
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Fenomenologia de la perception, ( Barcelona: Ed. Peninsula, 1975 ), p. 8.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sentido y sinsentido, Prologue by Fernando Montero. (Barcelona: Ed. Peninsula, 1977 ), p. 21.
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Lara Nieto, C. (1990). The Problem of Communication in Merleau-Ponty. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Man’s Self-Interpretation-in-Existence. Analecta Husserliana, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1864-1_21
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