I think Merleau-Ponty was not trying to be opaque or confusing but on the contrary he was being precise. And in that very precision he came to a stumbling block of his own and everyone's subjectivity that prevents complete objective definition of the world around us. This makes his proposition "direct and primitive contact with the world" aspirational and not yet objective.
I think Merleau-Ponty was not trying to be opaque or confusing but on the contrary he was being precise. And in that very precision he came to a stumbling block of his own and everyone's subjectivity that prevents complete objective definition of the world around us. This makes his proposition "direct and primitive contact with the world" aspirational and not yet objective.