New Philosopher

Phenomenology of Perception

“I am, as a sensing subject, full of natural powers of which I am the first to be filled with wonder. Thus I am not, to recall Hegel’s phrase, a ‘hole in being,’ but rather a hollow, or a fold that was made and that can be unmade.”

“I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.”

“If I wanted to express perceptual experience with precision, I would have to say that one perceives in me, and not that I perceive. Every sensation includes a seed of dream or depersonalisation, as we experience through this sort of stupor into which it puts us when we truly live at the level of sensation.”

“Our perception ends in

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