Even  if the sun is shining  and  the sound of birds singing  and  the sounds of a flowing  river or stream,  if we are depressed  or unhappy  or anxious we are not interested  in our surroundings.  Artists try to give meaning  to themselves  because  they are not focused on their surroundings  but their  inner solitude  and  subjectivity.

This brings up so much! Thinking of all those actions ‘in space’ I am reminded that in writing (as an act) what we express in the act is translated from a three dimensional world into the two dimensions of ink on paper. I have a friend who is an artist working with virtual space who started out as a poet: I music ask her if she explores the act of reading and writing in that virtual ‘three-dimensional’ space! Few people write these days: we all type (me, badly and slowly with two fingers!) Do we thereby miss out the ‘gestural’ act of writing (akin to movements in dance and marshal arts and what the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott calls “the spontaneous gesture”?) Perhaps we are further alienated from genuine self expression and ‘presencing’ by being forced thus. (Yet again, there is still ‘rhythm’ in typing so akin to musical self-expression.) I never stop finding new things in Merleau: cheers! Laurence Burrow

❤ what a gift you are to the world❤

Bless you John👌

Thnk you for this masterclass

Thank you, really nice video.

What's a difference between cognising and reflective thinking sir?

So helpful, thanks a lot!

Thank you for your excellent lecture!

Philosophers just create more questions than  answer's  like  other forms of knowledge  ie; science  and  psychology.

21:47 agregaría que también somos cuerpos que reciben acciones del mundo querramos o no.

But which particular print of Merleau-Ponty's are you referencing? I love the quotes you bring up but I can't find them in the Merleau-Ponty aesthetics reader copy that I have.

Thank you for your lectures, who are you? the body or something else?

Mr.Russon, Do we need actually comprehend Heidegger before start Merleau-Ponty. What is the consequence of your continental Philosophy lectures

What did you use to edit?

the translation is very funny . Robots translating  human voice

Derrida is complete nonsense