Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Husserl’s Origin of Geometry.

This article examines the relationship between Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, and Edmund Husserl, with a focus on the connection between phenomenology and postmodernism, as well as the relationship between perception and language. The author argues that Derrida misinterprets Merleau-Ponty's understanding of Husserl, and that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy provides a better understanding of these relationships. The article is divided into three sections, discussing Merleau-Ponty's interpretation of Husserl's letter, Husserl's emphasis on experience and conceptual essences, and the role of language in giving permanence to conceptual essences. The author concludes that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers a closer understanding of these relationships than Husserl or Derrida. [Extracted from the article]

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