Merleau-Ponty says in his Institution and Passivity lectures that he wants to consider criticism itself as a symbolic form instead of doing a philosophy of symbolic form.
This invites the possibility of an unconventional thought: If critical philosophy is a symbolic form, it cannot disclose its own limits and is, in fact, uncritical.
Furthermore, the symbolic form can never itself be thought according to the terms of the criticism it produces but is always only constellated and matrixed with.
| Thought | If critical philosophy is a symbolic form it cannot disclose its own limits and is in fact uncritical |
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State University Of New York Press Merleau-ponty between philosophy and symbolism, paperback/rajiv kaushik
