Volume 3, 2011
Selected Essays from the Euro-Mediterranean Area
Xavier Escribano
Pages 127-139
El cuerpo como simbólica general del mundo en el pensamiento de Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Th e aim of this paper is to provide an interpretation of the statement of Merleau-Ponty that holds that the human body is “a general symbolism of the world”. Through the author’s text, it will be shown that this formula can refer to at least three complementary meanings: the body as a synergic system; the body as a capacity of sympathy or identification with the perceived world and, finally, the body as an endless capacity of meaning.