"If Western thought is what it claims to be, it must prove it by understanding all "life-worlds." It must bear factual witness to its unique significance beyond "anthropological specimens." So the idea of philosophy as a "rigorous science" - or as absolute knowledge - does reappear here, but from thi"
"Whatever the validity of Merleau-Ponty's view, it does not support the myth that Husserl explicitly gave up in despair the ideal of a rigorous science of philosophy, a myth often supported by quoting Husserl's statement "Philosophy as a rigorous science—the dream is over [der Traum ist ausgeträumt]."
"To say that the ego "prior to" the other person is alone is already to situate it in relation to a phantom of the other person, or at least to conceive of an environment in which others could be. This is not the true and transcendental solitude. True, transcendental solitude takes place only if the "
"As far as language is concerned, it is the lateral relation of one sign to another which makes each of them significant, so that meaning appears only at the intersection of and as it were in the interval between words. This characteristic prevents us from forming the usual conception of the distinct"
"[1] Husserl and the Problem of Language In more recent writings, on the other hand, language appears as an original way of intending certain objects, as thought's body (Formale und transzendentale Logik), or even as the operation through which thoughts that without it would remain private phenomena "
没时间,但还是挤时间读了间接语言和论语言现象学这两个部分,爱梅洛庞蒂。
随谈部分,随便翻阅了几篇,更爱梅洛庞蒂,一个具体的梅洛庞蒂,带身体的、带情绪的、具身的、处境的梅洛庞蒂,一个一致的梅洛庞蒂。可惜,去世太早,天若假以更多时日,不知能否看见更具体的、改变了的、调整了的梅洛庞蒂(往ideal side 的)