Merleau-Ponty meets enactivism. A book review of "The Intercorporeal Self. Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity"
Merleau-Ponty meets enactivism. A book review of "The Intercorporeal Self. Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity"

Summary/Abstract: From the book review: "S. L. Marratto’s excellent book explores the resources for thinking about the subjectivity that comes from reading Maurice Merelau-Ponty. Interested particularly in Merelau-Ponty’s notion of intercorporiety (which denotes specific dimensions of anonymity characterising the personal body experience that lies beneath explicit self-consciousness), Marratto argues that no account of cognition (or self-consciousness and language) can be sufficient without the appreciation of the intercorporeal character of subjectivity. In that sense, drawing upon Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, the book aims to demonstrate (1) the importance of the concept of intercorporeity in deepening our understanding of the fundamentally intersubjective character of human self-consciousness, and argues that (2) the intercorporeal character of human subjectivity is resistant to any form of reductionism, which is often found in current interdisciplinary cognitive science. In that sense, it would be however a mistake to assume that The Intercorporeal Self is of great importance solely to the history of philosophy-centered research. In his book, Marratto tackles important contemporary issues found in ecological, embodied, enactive or simply "situated" approaches to cognition."

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