“Going Towards” from the Others. Merleau-Ponty’s Appropriation of the Notion of Intentional Arc
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Abstract
This paper aims to explore the genesis of the function called “intentional
arc” during childhood, considering it as a process of gradual development
and analysing the intermediate processes (like the constitution of
the self and the emergence of the world of objects) that collaborate in its
definition. I also attempt to demonstrate that the concept of intentional arc,
though scarcely developed by Merleau-Ponty, has consequences that imbue
and support much of his perceptual theory. Clarifying the conceptual framework
that sustains it can not only shed light on the genesis of perception in
his theory, but also provides valuable tools to account for the beginning of
the constitution of the habitual body in childhood.
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