The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) takes a special place within the history of twentieth century European philosophy which deal with the concept of the visible, the visual, the gaze, and the eye as the most important of the five senses in culture, the arts and social phenomena. In this context Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy (although his work is also not without traces of antiocularocentrism) is an attempt to lay down the foundations of an “alternative” model of perception, which stands in opposition to the Cartesian perspectival system and which attempts to integrate the eye and the gaze into a different system of perception. In the essay the authoress re-read the work of Merleau-Ponty and focused herself on the following questions: perception and gaze, the body and the embodiment of perception, the visible and invisible the relationship between the visible and the tactile and the specific definition of perception in relation to the categories of time and space and of its embodiment (with similar parallel attempts made by Scott Bukatman and Slavoj Žižek).Filozofija Mauricea Merleau-Pontyja (1908-1961) zaseda posebno mesto v zgodovini evropske filozofije dvajsetega stoletja, tiste, ki se ukvarja s problematiko vidnega in vizualnega ter osrediščenosti kulture, umetnosti in družbenega dogajanja na »oko«, kot poglavitno čutilo zahodne civilizacije. V tako začrtanem kontekstu je filozofija Mauricea Merleau-Pontyja, pa čeprav lahko tudi v njej zasledimo elemente antiokularocentrizma, poskus zastavitve temeljev »alternativnega« režima percepcije, ki se postavlja nasproti kartezijanskemu perspektivičnemu sistemu ter skuša oko in pogled integrirati v drugačen sistem zaznavanja. V pričujočem eseju se avtorica loteva ponovnega branja Merleau-Pontyjeve filozofije in se pri tem osredotoča na sledeča vprašanja: percepcijo, telo in utelešenje percepcije, vidno in nevidno, na odnos med vidnim in taktilnim ter na specifično pojmovanje percepcije v odnosu do kategorij časovnosti in prostorskosti (v primerjavi s podobnimi poskusi, kijih zasledimo v teoretičnem delu Scotta Bukatmana in Slavoja Žižka)
