TY - JOUR AU - da Rosa, Mauricio Bueno PY - 2019 TI - Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of Reduction in Phenomenology JF - Journal of Social Sciences VL - 15 IS - 1 DO - 10.3844/jssp.2019.159.162 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jssp.2019.159.162 AB - In this article we will approach, from Merleau-Ponty, the perspective of genetic phenomenology that describes the origin of all acts, objects and forms of consciousness investigating their structure. This phenomenology undertakes a description of experience in its genesis of constitution, the origin of the very acts of constitution prior to the giving of meaning operated by the pure self.