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Maurice Merleau-Ponty [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | This double touching and encroachment of the touching onto the touched (and vice versa), where subject and object cannot be unequivocally discerned, is considered to be representative of perception and sensibility generally. |
 | | For Merleau-Ponty, this interdependence and mutual encroachment is evident in all aspects of perception and subjectivity. |
 | | According to Merleau-Ponty then, this non-dualistic divergence between touching and being touched, which necessitates some form of encroachment between the two terms, also means that the world is capable of encroaching upon and altering us, just as we are capable of altering it. |
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