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The term sensation is ambiguous: on the one hand, to sense something is to catch on to the sense of something, its direction, orientation or meaning. On the other hand, to sense something is to be sensitive to something, to feel a contact with it, to be affected by it.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith (London & New York: Humanities, 1962 ), pp. 299–334.
Ibid., pp. 56–57.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, trans. A. Lingis ( Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964 ), pp. 131–32.
Ibid., p. 129.
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1962 ), p. 177.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty,“Eye and Mind,” trans. Carleton Dallery in James M. Edie, ed. The Primacy of Perception (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964), p. 182.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, p. 183.
Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper & Row, 1971 ), p. 174.
Emmanuel Lévinas, Totality and Infinity, trans. Alphonso Lingis ( The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979 ), p. 141.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, p. 131.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, p. 222.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, p. 218.
Emmanuel Lévinas, Totality and Infinity, p. 133.
Ibid., p. 129.
Ibid., pp. 189-92; Emmanuel Lévinas, Existence and Existents, trans. Alphonso Lingis (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978 ), pp. 46–50.
Edmund Husserl, The Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness, trans. James S. Churchill ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964 ), p. 95.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, pp. 209–210.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, p. 133.
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, pp. 330–31.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, trans. Hazel E. Barnes ( New York: Washington Square Press, 1977 ), p. 436.
Emmanuel Lévinas, Le Temps et l’Autre ( Montpellier, Fata Morgana, 1979 ), pp. 55–58.
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Lingis, A. (1986). Involution in the Sensuous. In: Phenomenological Explanations. Phaenomenologica, vol 96. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9610-2_4
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