WHAT MERLEAU-PONTY NOTICED HAND IN HAND WITH HUSSERL: WORLD, PERCEPTION AND FLESH

The aim of this article is to show the contrast between the philosophies of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty in light of the experience of the touching-touched hand described in Ideas II. As opposed to the importance of touching in the constitution of one's own body, the primacy of movement allows Merleau-Ponty to think about a reversibility between touching and seeing (between the tangible and the visible) that is decisive for developing the notion of flesh. As long as phenomenology reaches its limit in the experience of touching, this will be crucial for establishing differences between the two philosophers regarding decisive matters: the world, perception and the flesh.