Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2013
Abstract
Submitted chapter presents reevaluation of the traditional opposition of the imaginary and the real in the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Both authors ontologize the imaginary by showing that an image is by no means a mere copy of a thing, it is rather one of several ways of how a thing is present itself.
Merleau-Ponty ventures even further in this direction and rejects to see the imaginary simply as a product of the subjective capacity of imagination. According to him it is the imaginary and what he calls the anonymous taking place of open meaning, which together create the sphere, from which the world and we ourselves as bodily and sentient beings are born.