PRIMAT PERCEPCIJE I NJEGOVE FILOZOFSKE KONSEKVENCE
THE PRIMACY OF PERCEPTION AND ITS PHILOSOPHICAL CONSEQUENCES

Summary/Abstract: The Primacy of Perception and its Philosophical Consequences is an address given by Merleau-Ponty to the Société française de philosophie following the publication of his major work, The Phenomenology of Perception. The major goal of the book is presented as an attempt to define a method of getting closer to reality as we live and experience it at the level of perception. This reality is a privileged realm of experience – to which only a phenomenology can give us access – because it is there that the world constantly originates. The “primacy of perception” formulates a central thesis of the book. What is meant by the phrase is that the experience of perception is our presence at the moment when things, truths, values are constituted for us. It is a challenging thesis suggested by the insight that all consciousness is perceptual, even the consciousness of ourselves. Phenomenology thus becomes the phenomenology of perception.

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