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In Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty reminds us of the words of Edmund Husserl’s assistant, Eugen Fink, that phenomenology is wonder in the face of the world and a corresponding return to things (PP xiii). Still, Husserl, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty wrote about phenomenology, and certainly we come across their thoughts only in books. On one level I do not want to make very much of this; that is, I do not claim that the philosophical enterprise can be reduced to the act of writing. There is no need for me to take such a heavy burden upon myself since my point is a simple hermeneuical one, namely, that certain books have a unity that is more than the sum of their chapters.
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Catalano, J.S. (2010). The Body and the Book: Reading Being and Nothingness. In: Morris, K.J. (eds) Sartre on the Body. Philosophers in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248519_2
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