Percepção do esquema corporal sobre a deficiência física à luz da filosofia de Merleau-Ponty

Abstract

This article refers to the perception of the body scheme regarding physical disability in the light of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy based on the phenomenological aspect with a focus on the work The Phenomenology of Perception (1945), whose concept of the body itself is in-depth. From this perspective, we expose the intertwined concepts of perception and body schema, we argue about the construction of the concept of the body with physical disability and how we can make it more social and disconnected from dualistic thinking. Thus, we go through the understanding of disability in Disability Studies and explain that with this philosophical vision we have a less dichotomous and more human look at this body.