ABSTRACT
Arguably, Merleau-Ponty’s greatest contribution to philosophy is the thesis that subjectivity is physical, even if it was partly anticipated by Husserl and, even if, in the end, it should turn out to be false. However, Merleau-Ponty’s account of bodily subjectivty does not exhaust his account of subjectivity and in this chapter I examine his attitude to Cartesian epistemology of the self and his attempts to distance himself from rationalist and empiricist theories of the self.
