I am reading Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception next - I hope to get some answers from that work Our relation with the world isn't one of a distant Subject and Object, but a 'dizzying proximity'. This confrontation makes us aware of our own feelings, motivations, intentions, etc. This encounter at the level of anonymous and pre-personal lives does not, however, present us with another person in the full sense, since our situations are never entirely congruent. Stewart, Jon ed.
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