“[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis”

—  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Visible and the Invisible, trans. A. Lingis (Evanston: 1968), p. 135

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French phenomenological philosopher 1908–1961

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