L’antinomia del puro sentire

L’arcisenso e la carne del mondo tra Aldo Masullo e Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Resumen

This paper examines the structural tension between Aldo Masullo’s Arcisense and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s flesh of the world, both dealing with the originary and aporetic nature of lived experience. Masullo’s Arcisense denotes a pre-reflective auto-affection, the feeling-of-oneself that grounds subjectivity in the paradox of absolute certainty and radical groundlessness, revealing the pathic essence of existence as temporal exposure, pain and destiny. Merleau-Ponty, otherwise conceives the flesh of the world and the chiasm as the ontological thickness of perception, where perceiver and perceived intertwine in reversibility and distance. While Masullo emphasizes the irreducible in- communicability of lived experience and Merleau-Ponty the primordial continuity of intersubjectivity, both converge in showing that sense arises only within an aporetic circle of immediacy and mediation, solitude and relation. Thus, Arcisense and flesh of the world appear as two complementary articulations of the same enigmatic origin of human sense.