Mead's pragmatic focus on habit as the foundation of meaning is usually viewed in sharp contrast with Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological examination of meaning within experience. This paper attempts to show the way in which the explicit focus of each philosopher's position is latent within that of the other. For Mead and Merleau-Ponty alike, the content of human awareness at all levels is inseparably linked with the structure of human behavior. And, for both, such a structure is permeated throughout by the "living meaning" of anticipatory habit or vital intentionality.
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Rosenthal, S. B., & Bourgeois, P. L. (1990). Mead and Merleau-Ponty: Meaning, Perception, and Behavior. In The Moral Sense and Its Foundational Significance: Self, Person, Historicity, Community (pp. 401–409). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0555-9_31
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