MA Yuanlong
Journal of Renmin University of China.
2020, 34(5):
132-142.
is only when Heidegger announces that “Dasein is time and time is Dasein”,the most difficult problem in the history of western philosophy has been first really resolvedWhile he acknowledges Heidegger's great contribution to disclosing this most abstruse enigma,MerleauPonty doesn't think his answer to time is the last wordAccording to MerleauPonty,the most radical answer to “what is time?” should be this:Time must be understood as a subject,and the subject must be understood as timeOf course,what MerleauPonty calls subject is nothing but the bodyCommon sense holds that body and time are two unrelated thingsThen why should he understand the subject as a body? Why should he refer to body as time? What is the difference between their explanation? In what sense MerleauPonty develops and deepens our understanding of time?