The phenomenon of blindness and the movement of hand

In this article was made an attempt to discuss the interconnections between visuality and the movements of a body (hand) using the reflection of the phenomenon of blindness in the history of philosophy. We considered as a rather informative example of a postmodern "turn towards vision" tranformance of the Cartesian hypotheses concerning the parallel between vision and the movements of the hands of the blind in the book of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) Memoirs of the Blind. The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins (Memoires d'aveugle: L'autoportrait et autres ruins, 1990). The supposed idea of Descartes, that blind man sees with his hand invokes as pheno-menological, as deconstructive response in the philosophy of the 20th century. Merleau-Ponty opposes the hypothesis of Descartes about the possible second eyes in the consciousness of the seer, which indicate towards the possibility of the thought creating the image. Trying to negate the rational sources of emergency of a vision Merleau-Ponty stresses pre-theoretical, pre-reflective, intuitive genesis of it. On the other hand, opposing Descartes supposed external relation between subject and object, Merleau-Ponty stresses more close and interrelated being in the world of sentient body. This supposition of body as a medium between of relation the subject and the word is stressed by Merleau-Ponty using a parallel between seeing and touching as wellVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij