Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday - Week 8, TT22)

Merleau-Ponty writes that “of all the dimensions, depth is so to speak, the most ‘existential’.” This claim is similar to Heidegger’s statement that Ent-fernung (de-severance) is an existentiale that discovers remoteness. I explore the similarities and point out that, like Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger’s analysis of spatiality is committed to a certain conception of the motile body and the sensation of depth, even though he hardly mentions the body or the senses in Being and Time.