Harvard University Phenomenology of Perception by Merleau Ponty Discussion

Harvard University Phenomenology of Perception

Explain the role of the body in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception. Describe the intentionality of the body and the phenomenon of the phantom limb, and evaluate whether you find Merleau-Ponty’s version of intentionality compelling. Minimum 3 paragraphs.

In The Phenomenology of Perception Merleau-Ponty wrote that “[m]y significance lies beyond myself.” Explain the connection between this dictum in Merleau-Ponty and the theory of the human condition in Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition. Minimum 4 paragraphs.

Explain in detail Arendt’s argument that the human condition is grounded in speech and that speech is a form of action. Arendt claims that without speech we do not act in the public sphere. How does her theory of speech as action relate to her theory of the polis? Minimum 3 paragraphs.