Circular definitions: configuring gender in Italian Renaissance festival.

Renaissance Quarterly | March 22, 1995| | Copyright

The enigma is that my body simultaneously sees and is seen. That which looks at all things can also look at itself and recognize, in what it sees, the "other side" of its power of looking.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty(1)

In a memorable passage on the philosophy of art, phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty observes that the human subject's power to act and to perceive as a separate being arises from a body at once discrete unto itself, yet continuous with the world around it. "This initial paradox cannot but produce others," he continues. "Visible and mobile, my body is ...

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