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Unlike most modern philosophers, Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical interest is centered around space, not time. Strongly criticising the traditional concept of abstract, geometrical space, this great phenomenologist is studying « subjective space », grounded and determined by the person’s own body. Spatiality is by no means a quantative category, it is based upon perception, it does have a system of intentionality of its own, unfolding through an eidetics of directions and dimensions. The principal spatial eidos is depth, best understood via the notion of ‘voluminous’.