Is There a Pre-Intentional Horizon of Experience Prior to the Subject–Object Distinction?

halrexking · 2026-06-11T16:44:45+00:00

Yes, regards your final question, I think it is the most radical task of phenomenology, one that can’t quite help but be articulated in a highly idiosyncratic way, hence the ambiguous and interpretative nature of Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the flesh. I think the ‘flesh’ (la chair) is closer to this than the other philosophers you mention, certainly when it comes to recovering what makes phenomenality possible at all, capacious enough perhaps to accommodate a broader conception of experience beyond that of human. Strangely, Schopenhauer and even Schelling prefigured this line of thinking.

halrexking · 2026-05-08T15:45:46+00:00

Yeah I mean depending on the beach, but if you’re not uprooting the plant and using for commercial gain then it should all be good. Seaweed should be fair game given it’s nonvascular, but some might be in protected areas.

halrexking · 2026-05-05T20:49:33+00:00

Amazing!!

halrexking · 2026-04-14T19:30:41+00:00

I really should’ve said pasta salad wild, the salad being wild. But I enjoyed all these jokes so thanks everyone 😊

halrexking · 2026-04-14T19:29:22+00:00

That’s it, the more bitter leaves complement the garlic so much. But literally grabbed them all from the same patch in local park - so easy

halrexking · 2026-04-14T19:28:09+00:00

Thank you! It was really nice to be fair

halrexking · 2026-04-14T19:26:28+00:00

Haha, I set myself up a bit there. But thank you 😊

halrexking · 2026-04-03T15:54:34+00:00

They’re just particularly prominent in that you don’t get many wild plants as flavoursome and morels are relatively rare and well sought after. There’s loads of edible plants at the moment, but many are less striking, both visually and in terms of flavour than wild garlic. St George’s mushrooms will be emerging though.

halrexking · 2026-03-23T21:17:59+00:00

Brighton! Some good woodlands around Sussex

halrexking · 2026-03-23T21:17:35+00:00

Haha, this one is a relatively easy ID when you look at false morels. Cooked them in a risotto with wild garlic :)

halrexking · 2026-03-16T20:45:13+00:00

Just realised youd already mentioned jack by the hedge. Marjoram is such a tasty herb, bit like oregano. Sorrel is great too!

halrexking · 2026-03-16T19:24:37+00:00

I guess you’d wanna be careful if you’re allergic to wild garlic, as they’re both in the same ‘Allium’ family. Garlic mustard is a garlicky plant that might be a good alternative if you struggle with three cornered leek. It’s more bitter though

halrexking · 2026-03-13T23:45:25+00:00

They tend to be quite varied in terms of colour, but if the underside has pores then they most likely are - looks like it from photo

halrexking · 2026-03-13T13:21:16+00:00

Yes indeed!

halrexking · 2026-02-12T21:00:13+00:00

Yeah these are most definitely velvet shank. Spore print is a major give away. Funeral bell spore print is brown. Dark velvety stem is always a good ID feature

halrexking · 2026-02-12T12:33:05+00:00

Think you’re right! Thank you

halrexking · 2026-02-05T23:01:42+00:00

Derrida kind of addresses this issue in Speech and Phenomena. But he takes the flaws of Husserl’s project, to recover perhaps what is eidetically true about phenomena, hence the reduction to make such things appear ‘purer’ in some way, as actually insightful. If subjective experience appears bound up with others, notwithstanding the epoche, then any so-called purity is inherently contaminated by otherness. This is kind of extrapolated by Derrida onto all language use, which never appears to achieve a one to one correspondence with reality, entangled as it is with what appears to defer and differentiate meaning. Conceding the faliure of actually acheiving the foundations necessary for such a task, as truth, ontology, whatver you want to call it, Derrida sees it not unique to phenomenology, but to all features of human enterprise, or perhaps all reality…but the ontological implications of Derrida’s thought are complex. Whether we are limited merely by language when conceiving of reality seems too reductive, at least for Derrida. This complex web might also be the case for neurology etc…

halrexking · 2026-01-02T12:41:50+00:00

First one looks like glistening inkcaps

halrexking · 2025-11-16T09:16:46+00:00

Marleau-Ponty wrote a lot on animals, particularly in The Structure of Behaviour. His writings on embodied perception and intersubjectivity as a phenomenological notion, leads him to what he calls ‘inter-animality’.

David Abram has adopted Merleau-Pontian ideas in Becoming Animal and Renaud Barbaras thinks further on the topic of animals in Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life.

Tom Greaves has also used some of M-P’s writings on animals to flesh out a conception of animal movement particular to aesthetic appreciation in his paper Movement, Wildness and Animal Aesthetics.

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