Abstract
In the study "Sentient Body, Vindent Body. Richir with MerleauPonty", Sacha Carlson sets out to examine the Richirian conception of the body and vision as they appear in the first texts of the Belgian phenomenologist, in his inaugural confrontation with the work of the late Merleau-Ponty.
Carlson begins by situating the context of the Richirian reading of the author of The Visible and the Invisible. In a second paragraph, he highlights the nodal point of Richir's reappropriation of Merleau-Ponty, in the theme of the anonymity of sensation as pure embodied appearance, in the context of a phenomenology of the flesh as raw and savage being-in-the-world.
In a third paragraph, he focuses his attention on the analysis proposed by Richir, already at a distance from Merleau-Ponty, of the vision, as a moment of institution of the body itself, of the human body. This analysis allows him to examine the first Richirian sketches of what he would call the symbolic institution.