The intercorporeal self: Merleau-Ponty on subjectivity

Challenging a prevalent Western idea of the self as a discrete, interior consciousness, Scott L.

Marratto argues instead that subjectivity is a characteristic of the living, expressive movement establishing a dynamic intertwining between a sentient body and its environment.

He draws on the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, contemporary European philosophy, and research in cognitive science and development to offer a compelling investigation into what it means to be a self.