Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision

Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision
Title Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision PDF eBook
Author Douglas Beck Low
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Pages 150
Release 2000
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780810118072

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Few writers' unfinished works are considered among their most important, but such is the case with Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible. What exists of it is a mere beginning, yet it bridged modernism and postmodernism in philosophy. Low uses material from some of Merleau-Ponty's later works as the basis for completion. Working from this material and the philosopher's own outline, Low presents how this important work would have looked had Merleau-Ponty lived to complete it.

The Thinking of the Sensible

The Thinking of the Sensible
Title The Thinking of the Sensible PDF eBook
Author Mauro Carbone
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Pages 120
Release 2004-05-27
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0810119862

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In this first English publication of a well-known and widely respected Italian scholar, readers will encounter the preeminent interpreter of the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty engaged in a dialogue of critical concern to contemporary philosophy. In subtle and sensitive language eminently suited to the style and substance of Merleau-Ponty's own writings, Mauro Carbone fashions four essays around a central theme-the relations of the sensible and the intelligible, and of philosophy and non-philosophy-that occupied Merleau-Ponty in his later work. An original and innovative interpretation of the ontology of Merleau-Ponty--and themselves a significant contribution to the field of Continental thought--these essays constitute a sustained exploration of what Merleau-Ponty detected, and greeted, as a "mutation within the relations of man and Being," which would provide him with the basis for a new idea of philosophy or "a-philosophy." In lucid, often elegant terms, Carbone analyzes key elements of Merleau-Ponty's thought in relation to Proust's Recherche, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, the new biology of Von Uexküll, Rimbaud's Lettre du voyant, and Heidegger's conception of "letting-be." His work clearly demonstrates the vitality of Merleau-Ponty's late revolutionary philosophy by following its most salient, previously unexplored paths. This is essential reading for any scholar with an interest in Merleau-Ponty, in the questions of embodiment, temporality and Nature, or in the possibility of philosophy today.

Mead and Merleau-Ponty

Mead and Merleau-Ponty
Title Mead and Merleau-Ponty PDF eBook
Author Sandra B. Rosenthal
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 246
Release 1991-01-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780791407899

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This book unites George Herbert Mead and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in a shared rejection of substance philosophy as well as spectator theory of knowledge, in favor of a focus on the ultimacy of temporal process and the constitutive function of social praxis. Both Mead and Merleau-Ponty return to the richness of lived experience within nature, and both lead to radically new, insightful visions of the nature of selfhood, language, freedom, and time itself, as well as of the nature of the relation between the so-called "tensions" of appearance and reality, sensation and object, the individual and the community, freedom and constraint, and continuity and creativity.

Phenomenology of Perception

Phenomenology of Perception
Title Phenomenology of Perception PDF eBook
Author Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Pages 494
Release 1996
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9788120813465

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Textures of Light

Textures of Light
Title Textures of Light PDF eBook
Author Cathryn Vasseleu
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 170
Release 1998
Genre Light
ISBN 9780415142748

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Drawing on the work of Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, this study of the importance of light in Western thought aims to show the ambivalent role light plays within philosophy.

Vision and Mind

Vision and Mind
Title Vision and Mind PDF eBook
Author Alva Noë
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 644
Release 2002-10-25
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780262640473

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The philosophy of perception is a microcosm of the metaphysics of mind. Its central problems—What is perception? What is the nature of perceptual consciousness? How can one fit an account of perceptual experience into a broader account of the nature of the mind and the world?—are at the heart of metaphysics. Rather than try to cover all of the many strands in the philosophy of perception, this book focuses on a particular orthodoxy about the nature of visual perception. The central problem for visual science has been to explain how the brain bridges the gap between what is given to the visual system and what is actually experienced by the perceiver. The orthodox view of perception is that it is a process whereby the brain, or a dedicated subsystem of the brain, builds up representations of relevant figures of the environment on the basis of information encoded by the sensory receptors. Most adherents of the orthodox view also believe that for every conscious perceptual state of the subject, there is a particular set of neurons whose activities are sufficient for the occurrence of that state. Some of the essays in this book defend the orthodoxy; most criticize it; and some propose alternatives to it. Many of the essays are classics. Contributors G.E.M. Anscombe, Dana Ballard, Daniel Dennett, Fred Dretske, Jerry Fodor, H.P. Grice, David Marr, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Zenon Pylyshyn, Paul Snowdon, and P.F. Strawson

Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism

Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism
Title Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism PDF eBook
Author Rajiv Kaushik
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 204
Release 2019-10-18
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1438476779

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Merleau-Ponty says in his Institution and Passivity lectures that he wants to "consider criticism itself as a symbolic form" instead of doing "a philosophy of symbolic form." This invites the possibility of an unconventional thought: If critical philosophy is a symbolic form, it cannot disclose its own limits and is, in fact, uncritical. Furthermore, the symbolic form can never itself be thought according to the terms of the criticism it produces but is always only constellated and matrixed within them—a symbolic form within both reflection and what it reflects on, within consciousness and the world. Thus, as Rajiv Kaushik argues, the symbolic form is another name for what Merleau-Ponty calls ontological divergence. Only now divergence introduces the question of a limit to both the subject and philosophy itself. This is nothing less than a psychoanalysis of philosophy. Kaushik's analyses of the matrices between space—imagination, light—dark, awake—asleep, and repression—expression reveal this symbolism in its form of divergence, its lack of origin and destination. Kaushik also argues that the phenomenology of symbolism must detour from the purely descriptive method. Drawing from Merleau-Ponty's recently published course materials, and attentive to his reliance on literature and literary language, Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism continues the living force of Merleau-Ponty's thought and develops his radical insight of the primacy of the symbolic form, even in an ontology that claims to be about the sensible and its elements.