Le visible et l'invisible Notes de travail

Of the great work that Merleau-Ponty dreamed of, there remain only cent cinquante pages of manuscripts. what is their function: to introduce. it is to direct the reader to a domain that his habits of thought do not immediately make accessible to him. It aims, in particular, to persuade the reader that the fundamental concepts of modern philosophy - for example, the distinctions of subject and object, of essence and fact, of being and notion, the notions of conscience, of image, of thing - which he is not familiar with are not always accessible.image, de chose - of which there is constant use - already imply a singular interpretation of the world and can never claim a special dignity when our proposal is simply to put ourselves in the face of our experience in order to seek in it the genesis of meaning. Why has it become necessary to take a new start, why can we no longer think within the framework of the old systems, nor even buildtir sur le sol où nous voyons, si différents soient-ils dans leur orientation, plonger leurs racines, voilà ce que l'auteur s'efforce de dire tout d'abort. Preliminary considerations, one would think, and indeed, such is the nature of the work that the initiation is now decisive, the truth of the course anticipated in the first démarche.