Phenomenology of Perception of Merleau-Ponty in the Relation to a Dichotomy inside the Czech Art Education

Abstract

Phenomenology of Perception of Merleau-Ponty in the Relation to a Dichotomy inside the Czech Art Education. – The article deals with the long-standing problem of artificially created polarizations not only inside the Art Education in the Czech Republic but also in a culture generally. The European cultural tradition split a human consciousness up, which is a subject of cultural education, to inanimate, separated islands. Merleau-Ponty’s characterization of the phenomenological body could helps to undermine what had been a long-standing conception of perception and consciousness. The consciousness, the world, and the human body as a perceiving thing are intricately intertwined and mutually engaged. The article is illustrative of how his corporeity of consciousness as much as an intentionality of the body should be a solution to a sundered view.