...‘slackens the intentional threads which attach us to the world', we experience the upsurge and can ‘watch the forms of transcendence fly up like sparks from a fire' (1962, p. xiii). Merleau-Ponty employs yet another metaphor—the blossoming of wild flowers. Our phenomenological...

...reduction, Merleau-Ponty says, is ‘wonder in the face of the world' (ibid., p. xiii). Reflection ‘steps back to watch the forms of transcendence...us to the world and thus brings them to our notice' (ibid., p. xiii). Therefore, the most important lesson taught by Husserl's struggles to articulate...

...reflection does not withdraw from the world towards the unity of consciousness as the world's basis; it steps back to watch the forms of transcendence fly up like sparks from a fire; it slacks the intentional threads which attach us to the world and thus brings them to our notice” (1989,...

...Reflection does not withdraw from the world toward the unity of consciousness as the world's basis; it steps back to watch the forms of transcendence fly...us to the world and thus brings them to our notice . . . (Merleau-Ponty 1962: XIII). This means that transcendental reduction is repeating our factual...

...“radical reflection” (PP. pp. 213, 241). It is, in other words, a critical selfreflection, one that “steps back to watch the forms of transcendence...to the world and thus brings them to our notice” (PP. p. xiii). In more explicit terms, Merleau-Ponty explains: Reflection cannot be thorough-going,...

...Reflection dpes not withdraw from the world towards the unity of consciousness as the world's basis; it steps back to watch the forms of transcendence fly...it reveals that world as strange and paradoxical. Husserl's transcendental is not Kant's and Husserl accuses Kant's philosophy of being 'worldly', because...

...discover in them. "Reflection," Merleau-Ponty explains, "does not withdraw from the world . . .; it steps back to watch the forms of transcendence fly...us to the world and thus brings them to our notice" (xiii). Once we have noticed the tacit decisions that mark out the social field, we are in a position...

...consciousness as the world's basis; it steps back to watch the forms ot transcendence fly up like sparks trom a fire; it slackens the intentional threads which...brings them to our notice; It alone is consciousness ot the world because it reveals that world as strange and paradoxical. " As a result, Merleau-Ponty...

...much instruction on this issue when he states, “Reflection does not withdraw from the world. . . it slackens the intentional threads which attach us...to the world and thus brings them to our notice” (1962, p. xiii). By a “slackening of intentional threads,” he refers not to reflection back toward...

...Phenomenological reflection does not, then, strictly separate consciousness from the world. Rather, "it slackens the intentional threads which attach...us to the world and thus brings them to our notice" (Phenomenologie de la perception [PP], viii/xiii). Since these threads cannot be broken, since we always...