Pojęcie ciała własnego i jego status w Fenomenologii percepcji Merleau-Ponty’ego
The Concept of One’s Own Body and Its Status in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Phenomenology of Perception

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to outline the idea of one’s own body (le corps propre) in The Phenomenologyof Perception, the seminal work of Merleau-Ponty, and to present the dispute of Merleau-Ponty (andHusserl) with Sartre on the so-called double sensation and the related possibility of simultaneous associationof the body in its physical form (der Körper) with its lived aspects (der Leib). The author of thearticle, contrary to most writers on the subject, supports Sartre’s position. The views presented in thearticle undermine the status of one’s own body, and along with it one of the main theses of The Phenomenologyof Perception (the connection between the physical and the lived body) which forms the basisof all other theses in Merleau-Ponty’s opus magnum.

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