Archeology of Being: Corporality between Subjectivity and Objectivity

If we want to reach the things themselves, we must assert the primacy of perception. Merleau-Ponty's thesis of the primacy of perception actually asserts the ontological primacy of perceptual world. As for primacy of perception, what it consequently signifies is the fact that it is not something the subject has or does. Perception is not to be conceived of as the activity of the Transcendental Ego, which is as we know a product of reflection. We thus get into trouble. In these circumstances, we are confronted with a loss of structural scope within which all metaphysical categories (subject, object, cogito etc.) could operate. We must, finally, assume some kind of a corporeal self, because there wouldn't be any perception without the adaptation of the body. Perception is older than reflection, and more primordial. Strictly speaking, perception is pre-personal and therefore we shouldn't say I perceive but "one" perceives in me. At this point, we could detect a certain similarity with language, which is also independent of every subject. As for the subject of perception, it can no longer be thought as bodiless.