Merleau Ponty And God

Author : Michael P. Berman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498513227

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Merleau-Ponty and God by Michael P. Berman Pdf

Michael P. Berman’s Merleau-Ponty and God: Hallowing the Hollow examines issues in the philosophy of religion through the phenomenological and existential writings of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961). Merleau-Ponty addressed issues like the nature of faith, the problem of evil, and the love and judgment of God. Throughout the book Berman explains and critically interrogates the religious perspectives articulated in Merleau-Ponty’s thought. Merleau-Ponty challenges us to think through these issues but always with an eye to our embodiment and perceptual experience. In this vein, Merleau-Ponty and God fleshes out the French philosopher’s treatment of God in his writings. Merleau-Ponty and God will appeal to those interested in the philosophy of religion (inside and outside the academy), as well as scholars and students of Merleau-Ponty, continental philosophy, phenomenology, or existentialism.

Author : Michael P. Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : God
ISBN : LCCN:2017004949

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Author : Michael P. Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1498513212

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Merleau-Ponty and God by Michael P. Berman Pdf

In this book, Michael P. Berman uses Merleau-Ponty's thought to develop a critique, grounded in his phenomenology, of certain issues in the philosophy of religion such as faith, love, vision, soul, magic and miracles, judgment, evil, and hallowing.

Author : Taylor Carman,Mark B. N. Hansen,Mark Boris Nicola Hansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521007771

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The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty by Taylor Carman,Mark B. N. Hansen,Mark Boris Nicola Hansen Pdf

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Author : Eric Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317489610

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The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty by Eric Matthews Pdf

In this introduction to the life and thought of one of the most important French thinkers of the twentieth-century Eric Matthews shows how Merleau-Ponty has contributed to current debates in philosophy, such as the nature of consciousness, the relation between biology and personality, the historical understanding of human thought and society, and many others. Surveying the whole range of Merleau-Ponty's thinking, the author examines his views about the nature of phenomenology and the primacy of perception; his account of human embodiment, being-in-the-world, and his understanding of human behaviour; his conception of the self and its relation to other selves; and, his views on society, politics, and the arts. A final chapter considers his later thought, published posthumously. The ideas of Merleau-Ponty are shown to be of immense importance to the development of French philosophy and the author evaluates his distinctive contributions and relates his thought to that of his predecessors, contemporaries and successors, both in France and elsewhere. This unrivalled introduction will be welcomed by philosophers and cognitive scientists as well as students taking courses in contemporary continental philosophy.

Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8120813464

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Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Pdf

Buddhist philosophy of Anicca (impermanence), Dukkha (suffering), and

Author : Orion Edgar
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498202626

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Things Seen and Unseen by Orion Edgar Pdf

The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty was developing into a radical ontology when he died prematurely in 1961. Merleau-Ponty identified this nascent ontology as a philosophy of incarnation that carries us beyond entrenched dualisms in philosophical thinking about perception, the body, animality, nature, and God. What does this ontology have to do with the Catholic language of incarnation, sacrament, and logos on which it draws? In this book, Orion Edgar argues that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is dependent upon a logic of incarnation that finds its roots and fulfillment in theology, and that Merleau-Ponty drew from the Catholic faith of his youth. Merleau-Ponty's final abandonment of Christianity was based on an understanding of God that was ultimately Kantian rather than orthodox, and this misunderstanding is shared by many thinkers, both Christian and not. As such, Merleau-Ponty's philosophy suggests a new kind of natural theology, one that grounds an account of God as ipsum esse subsistens in the questions produced by a phenomenological account of the world. This philosophical ontology also offers to Christian theology a route away from dualistic compromises and back to its own deepest insight.

Author : Christopher Ben Simpson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780567301147

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Merleau-Ponty and Theology by Christopher Ben Simpson Pdf

The philosophical contributions of French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, carry great untapped potential for theologians thinking through some of the central affirmations of the Christian faith. This exploration is structured against the background of the fundamental interrelation between three "bodies" in Merleau-Ponty's thought and in Christian theology: the material as such or "nature" (the corporeal), the human body as a living body (the corporal), and the social body (the corporate-including language and tradition). Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers a finessed and non-reductionistic understanding of the relations between these orders of bodies. Appropriating Merleau-Ponty's thought helps one think through Christian doctrines of creation, theological anthropology, Christology, ecclesiology, and eschatology.

Author : Galen A. Johnson,Mauro Carbone,Emmanuel de Saint Aubert
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823288144

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Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World by Galen A. Johnson,Mauro Carbone,Emmanuel de Saint Aubert Pdf

Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature. From Proust, Merleau-Ponty developed his conception of “sensible ideas,” from Claudel, his conjoining of birth and knowledge as “co-naissance,” from Valéry came “implex” or the “animal of words” and the “chiasma of two destinies.” Literature also provokes the questions of expression, metaphor, and truth and the meaning of a Merleau-Pontian poetics. The poetic of Merleau-Ponty is, the book argues, a poetic of the flesh, a poetic of mystery, and a poetic of the visible in its relation to the invisible. Ultimately, theoretical figures or “figuratives” that appear at the threshold between philosophy and literature enable the possibility of a new ontology. What is at stake is the very meaning of philosophy itself and its mode of expression.

Author : Kascha Semonovitch,Neal DeRoo
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441119315

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Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception by Kascha Semonovitch,Neal DeRoo Pdf

This book poses the question of what lies at the limit of philosophy. Through close studies of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life and work, the authors examine one of the twentieth century's most interdisciplinary philosophers whose thought intersected with and contributed to the practices of art, psychology, literature, faith and philosophy. As these essays show, Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre disrupts traditional disciplinary boundaries and prompts his readers to ask what, exactly, constitutes philosophy and its others. Featuring essays by an international team of leading phenomenologists, art theorists, theologians, historians of philosophy, and philosophers of mind, this volume breaks new ground in Merleau-Ponty scholarship-including the first sustained reflections on the relationship between Merleau-Ponty and religion-and magnifies a voice that is talked-over in too many conversations across the academic disciplines. Anyone interested in phenomenology, art theory and history, cognitive science, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion will find themselves challenged and engaged by the articles included in this important effort at inter-disciplinary philosophy.

Author : Judith Wambacq
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0821422871

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Thinking Between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty by Judith Wambacq Pdf

Questioning the dominant view that Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty have little of substance in common, Judith Wambacq draws on unpublished primary sources and current scholarship in English and French to bring them into a compelling dialogue to reveal a shared concern with the transcendental conditions of thought.

Author : Orion Edgar
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498202619

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Things Seen and Unseen by Orion Edgar Pdf

The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty was developing into a radical ontology when he died prematurely in 1961. Merleau-Ponty identified this nascent ontology as a philosophy of incarnation that carries us beyond entrenched dualisms in philosophical thinking about perception, the body, animality, nature, and God. What does this ontology have to do with the Catholic language of incarnation, sacrament, and logos on which it draws? In this book, Orion Edgar argues that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is dependent upon a logic of incarnation that finds its roots and fulfillment in theology, and that Merleau-Ponty drew from the Catholic faith of his youth. Merleau-Ponty's final abandonment of Christianity was based on an understanding of God that was ultimately Kantian rather than orthodox, and this misunderstanding is shared by many thinkers, both Christian and not. As such, Merleau-Ponty's philosophy suggests a new kind of natural theology, one that grounds an account of God as ipsum esse subsistens in the questions produced by a phenomenological account of the world. This philosophical ontology also offers to Christian theology a route away from dualistic compromises and back to its own deepest insight.

Author : Eric Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317489627

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The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty by Eric Matthews Pdf

In this introduction to the life and thought of one of the most important French thinkers of the twentieth-century Eric Matthews shows how Merleau-Ponty has contributed to current debates in philosophy, such as the nature of consciousness, the relation between biology and personality, the historical understanding of human thought and society, and many others. Surveying the whole range of Merleau-Ponty's thinking, the author examines his views about the nature of phenomenology and the primacy of perception; his account of human embodiment, being-in-the-world, and his understanding of human behaviour; his conception of the self and its relation to other selves; and, his views on society, politics, and the arts. A final chapter considers his later thought, published posthumously. The ideas of Merleau-Ponty are shown to be of immense importance to the development of French philosophy and the author evaluates his distinctive contributions and relates his thought to that of his predecessors, contemporaries and successors, both in France and elsewhere. This unrivalled introduction will be welcomed by philosophers and cognitive scientists as well as students taking courses in contemporary continental philosophy.

Author : Barry Cooper
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442637658

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Merleau-Ponty and Marxism by Barry Cooper Pdf

Influenced by Kojève's interpretation of Hegel as well as his direct political experience of the second world war, Maurice Merleau-Ponty abandoned the religious and philosophical position he had assumed in the 1930s and turned to Marxism. This is the first critical study of the French philosopher's political ideas and the context in which they evolved. In its origin and its development, Merleau-Ponty's political thought expressed a subtle dialectic between ongoing political events and the apparent truths of Marx's analysis. With the onset of the cold war, the discovery of the Soviet concentration camps, the repression of Eastern Europe, the Algerian crisis, and the founding of the Fifth Republic, Merleau-Ponty began to take a critical look at Marx's ideas of the genesis of humanism in the light of these disturbing political realities. His reconsideration of the basis of Marxism and his conclusion that it had lost contact with history led to a fundamental reorientation of his attitudes. No longer sympathetic to the use of violence to end violence, he criticized Sartre's external justification of communist violence as 'magical' and advocated instead a new liberalism combining parliamentary democracy with an awareness of the social problems of industrial capitalism. Barry Cooper's study of this important contemporary thinker gives context for an understanding of Merleau- Ponty's politics and, in so doing, brings together the complex issues and ideas that have shaped modern European political and philosophical thought.

Author : Duane H. Davis,William S. Hamrick
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438459592

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Merleau-Ponty and the Art of Perception by Duane H. Davis,William S. Hamrick Pdf

Philosophers and artists consider the relevance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy for understanding art and aesthetic experience. This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated perspectives on art and perception based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Although Merleau-Ponty focused almost exclusively on painting in his writings on aesthetics, this collection also considers poetry, literary works, theater, and relationships between art and science. In addition to philosophers, the contributors include a painter, a photographer, a musicologist, and an architect. This widened scope offers important philosophical benefits, testing and providing evidence for the empirical applicability of Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetic writings. The central argument is that for Merleau-Ponty the account of perception is also an account of art and vice versa. In the philosopher’s writings, art and perception thus intertwine necessarily rather than contingently such that they can only be distinguished by abstraction. As a result, his account of perception and his account of art are organic, interdependent, and dynamic. The contributors examine various aspects of this intertwining across different artistic media, each ingeniously revealing an original perspective on this intertwining.