Merleau-Ponty and history deconstructed

pp. 32-48

in: , Transcendental history, Berlin, Springer, 2013

Abstract

It is the hallmark of humanity to be Homo erectus: to have stood up on our lower extremities. Yet none of us is born upright. We are not born standing, even if we have all at some point risen to our feet. Every one of us must grow up, must learn first to crawl, and then to walk: to grow into the human condition.