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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6964
dc.contributor.author	Valenti Riccardo
dc.title	“A past which has never been”. Unveiling Merleau-Ponty’s Accountability of the Mythological Heritage of Perception. A Modern nekyia?
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper focuses on Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of the mythological account of knowledge as a cumulative source of temporal sedimentation. In the following lines, I argue Merleau-Ponty holds both a negative and, most importantly, a positive opinion concerning what has to be considered as ʻmythicalʼ: all contents of information and reflection referring to an ʻunreflectiveʼ past. Below, in the third paragraph, I summarise the major features the ʻinstitutionalʼ ontology defends: I also highlight the Husserlian influence on Merleau-Ponty’s thought. In the fourth section of this paper, I make a comparison between the most relevant outcomes of the previous paragraphs and Stigler’s conception of tertiary retention: in so doing, I emphasise the unique role the faculty of ʻwritingʼ has in the theory of sedimentation. Finally, I conclude that ʻpastʼ as a traditional, mythical foundation is still of service for showing the way the future shall forward.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-05-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-10-19
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-589-6/a-past-which-has-never-been-unveiling-merleau-pont/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-588-9/019
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-588-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Activation
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Myth
dc.subject	Response
dc.subject	Sedimentation

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“A past which has never been”. Unveiling Merleau-Ponty’s Accountability of the Mythological Heritage of Perception

A Modern nekyia?

Riccardo Valenti Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italia; Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

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This paper focuses on Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of the mythological account of knowledge as a cumulative source of temporal sedimentation. In the following lines, I argue Merleau-Ponty holds both a negative and, most importantly, a positive opinion concerning what has to be considered as ʻmythicalʼ: all contents of information and reflection referring to an ʻunreflectiveʼ past. Below, in the third paragraph, I summarise the major features the ʻinstitutionalʼ ontology defends: I also highlight the Husserlian influence on Merleau-Ponty’s thought. In the fourth section of this paper, I make a comparison between the most relevant outcomes of the previous paragraphs and Stigler’s conception of tertiary retention: in so doing, I emphasise the unique role the faculty of ʻwritingʼ has in the theory of sedimentation. Finally, I conclude that ʻpastʼ as a traditional, mythical foundation is still of service for showing the way the future shall forward.

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May 13, 2022

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Keywords: Sedimentation • Myth • Response • Activation • Memory

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