MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY : RECONNAISSANCE DE L’HOMME PAR L’HOMME COMME VISIBLE ET INVISIBLE
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY: RECOGNITION OF MAN BY MAN AS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE

Summary/Abstract: My hypothesis is not that phenomenology would generate an explicit philosophy of recognition of man by man, but that the junction of phenomenology and existentialism – or rather the insertion of phenomenology into existentialism, as it was the case with Merleau-Ponty – could lead to this philosophy. My paper desires to discuss the philosophical motivation of Merleau-Ponty’s conception about communism as “recognition of man by man”. Based on the presumption that the work is a whole, even though unfinished, I call attention to the relations: visible–invisible and I– the other, just for lightening the problems of the sense of history and the reciprocal recognition of people, as implied subtext in Merleau-Ponty’s permanent preoccupation.

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