Maurice Merleau-Ponty came on the wings of the Wind Horse 
A little 'sbalestrata the Wind Horse, I buy the newspaper. I want to put hands and feet in a daily reality and I think the best reading. A
page 49 find an article about a man who has spent his entire life studying, writing and meditating, a man whom I had never heard the name
:
Maurice Merleau Ponty . The words that describe it have something familiar. I read about him on the Internet, look at his picture, I decide to buy
his book "The eye and the spirit" . Talk about painting and painting me interested. In the library, close to the 'The Eye and Mind "is
" Phenomenology of Perception " a volume of 581 pages: 581 pages
c h speak of philosophy, is certainly not a summer reading ... I read a few lines, I can not say the words slip away, but I understand the things of which we speak, not in detail
, but I understand. I buy it and go out from the library as if I had discovered a treasure.
This treasure I want to share with you because Maurice Merleau Ponty speaks the words of European Culture ' human experiences in terms very close to the traditions that guide our research.
Just because we are from side to side relation to the world, for us the only way to realize it is to terminate this movement, to deny our complicity (...). Not because you give up the certainty of the world and the common ' natural attitude - conversely they are the constant theme of philosophy - but because just as the conditions of all thought they "are obvious," unnoticed and to wake them and make them look, must abstain for a while. The best formula for reducing [ phenomenological ] is that provided Eugen Fink , assistant to Husserl , when he spoke of a "surprise" before the world. Reflection does not withdraw from the world towards the unity of consciousness as the foundation of the world, but it takes distance to see the result transcendences, deliberate stretches the wires that connect us to the world to make them appear, it alone is consciousness of the world because it reveals the strange and paradoxical.
Phenomenology of Perception Maurice Merleau Ponty editions Bompiani P. . 22
