Merleau Ponty And The Ethics Of Intersubjectivity

Author : Anya Daly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137527448

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Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity by Anya Daly Pdf

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to explicate Merleau-Ponty’s unwritten ethics. Daly contends that though Merleau-Ponty never developed an ethics per se, there is significant textual evidence that clearly indicates he had the intention to do so. This book highlights the explicit references to ethics that he offers and proposes that these, allied to his ontological commitments, provide the basis for the development of an ethics. In this work Daly shows how Merleau-Ponty’s relational ontology, in which the interdependence of self, other and world is affirmed, offers an entirely new approach to ethics. In contrast to the ‘top-down’ ethics of norms, obligations and prescriptions, Daly maintains that Merleau-Ponty’s ethics is a ‘bottom-up’ ethics which depends on direct insight into our own intersubjective natures, the ‘I’ within the ‘we’ and the ‘we’ within the ‘I’; insight into the real nature of our relation to others and the particularities of the given situation. Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity is an important contribution to the scholarship on the later Merleau-Ponty which will be of interest to graduate students and scholars. Daly offers informed readings of Merleau-Ponty’s texts and the overall approach is both scholarly and innovative.

Author : Anya M. Daly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138292761

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Merleau-Ponty, Interworlds, and the Phenomenology of Interdependence by Anya M. Daly Pdf

This book aims to clarify interdependence as a concept and to reveal the ontological commitments that demonstrate how this notion can help us address a range of contemporary issues in ethics, politics, environmental ethics, and interspecies concerns. The term interdependence is often mentioned in contemporary political and social discourses without a clear appreciation for its conceptual commitments and practical implications. Daly addresses these deficiencies through cogent analyses of phenomenology that interrogate and reconfigure our understandings of the various natural, interpersonal, cultural, and political domains key to our living in a shared world. The book's conceptual framework is organized around Merleau-Ponty's non-dualist and relational ontology, which underpins human subjects and other living beings in what he calls an "interworld." Each of the seven chapters outlines a different interworld--natural, perceptual, aesthetic, linguistic, philosophical, ethical, and political--and shows how phenomenology as a philosophy of lived experience is uniquely placed to reveal the significance and background conditions of that world. The book also engages with the commitments and methodologies of other disciplines, notably psychology, neuroscience, and political theory, to shed new light on the vexing issues contained within these interworlds.

Author : M. C. Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : OSU:32435082423799

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The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity by M. C. Dillon Pdf

M. C. Dillon (1938–2005) was widely regarded as a world-leading Merleau-Ponty scholar. His book Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology (1988) is recognized as a classic text that revolutionized the philosophical conversation about the great French phenomenologist. Dillon followed that book with two others: Semiological Reductionism, a critique of early-1990s linguistic reductionism, and Beyond Romance, a richly developed theory of love. At the time of his death, Dillon had nearly completed two further books to which he was passionately committed. The first one offers a highly original interpretation of Nietzsche’s ontology of becoming. The second offers a detailed ethical theory based on Merleau-Ponty’s account of carnal intersubjectivity. The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity collects these two manuscripts written by a distinguished philosopher at the peak of his powers—manuscripts that, taken together, offer a distinctive and powerful view of human life and ethical relations.

Author : James Hatley,Janice McLane,Christian Diehm
Publisher : Duquesne
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015067710890

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Interrogating Ethics by James Hatley,Janice McLane,Christian Diehm Pdf

"These essays focus on our embodied responsiveness to others, particularly as this is illuminated in the thought of French phenomenologist and psychologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Contributors discuss aesthetics, political theory, developmental and depth psychology, interfaith relations, literary criticism, feminist and ecological critique, phenomenological description and hermeneutical analysis"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Luís Aguiar de Sousa,Ana Falcato
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527536661

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Phenomenological Approaches to Intersubjectivity and Values by Luís Aguiar de Sousa,Ana Falcato Pdf

Phenomenology’s remarkable insights are still largely overlooked when it comes to contemporary debate concerning values in general. This volume addresses this gap, bringing together papers on the phenomenology of intersubjectivity. What makes it special and distinct from similar texts, however, is its reliance on the axiological—that is, the ethical and existential—dimension of phenomenology’s account of intersubjectivity. All the great phenomenologists (Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Emmanuel Levinas) are covered here, as are lesser-known thinkers in the Anglo-American world, such as Max Scheler and Gabriel Marcel. As such, this book will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in phenomenology, existential philosophy, continental philosophy, sociality, and values.

Author : Dorothea Olkowski,Gail Weiss
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271047041

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Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty by Dorothea Olkowski,Gail Weiss Pdf

Author : Scott L. Marratto
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438442334

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The Intercorporeal Self by Scott L. Marratto Pdf

Challenging a prevalent Western idea of the self as a discrete, interior consciousness, Scott L. Marratto argues instead that subjectivity is a characteristic of the living, expressive movement establishing a dynamic intertwining between a sentient body and its environment. He draws on the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, contemporary European philosophy, and research in cognitive science and development to offer a compelling investigation into what it means to be a self.

Author : Janet Donohoe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487520434

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Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity by Janet Donohoe Pdf

"This book provides a compelling look at the importance of Husserl's methodological shift from his original purely "static" approach to his later "genetic" approach to the analysis of consciousness. The author shows that between 1913 and 1921 Husserl progressed in his thinking from a constitutive analysis of how something is experienced, which focused primarily on the general structure of consciousness as an abstract unity, to an investigation into the origins of the subject as a unique individual interacting with and growing within the surrounding environment. This much needed synthesis of Husserl's methodology will be of interest to scholars, phenomenologists, and philosophers from both continental and analytic schools."--

Author : Rudi Visker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401144674

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Truth and Singularity by Rudi Visker Pdf

The aim of these essays is to disentangle us from the opposition between universalism and relativism in which so many of the debates in recent contemporary philosophy have been caught. This volume shows that what is in fact returning in these discussions and maneuvering them into a pre-set course is the very ambiguity, `the subject', which they seek to repress.

Author : Duane H. Davis
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015050481459

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Merleau Ponty's Later Works and Their Practical Implications by Duane H. Davis Pdf

In his final and posthumously published work, The Visible and the Invisible, Maurice Merleau-Ponty employed the term "dehiscence" as a wonderful metaphor to describe our emergence within the world. This botanical term aptly calls to mind both the efflorescence of individuality within a shared context and the development of the practical implications of Merleau-Ponty's thought. The latter subject is the principal focus of the works collected in this book. Part One, a translation of three recently discovered letters between Jean-Paul Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, provides a detailed record of the disagreement over political issues that ultimately drove the two philosophers apart. Part Two contains five essays devoted to the politcal implications of Merleau-Ponty's later thought; some scholars criticize the attempt to find practical political applications for this thought; others suggest how such a project might be accomplished. Part Three contains another five essays devoted to the ethical implications of these later texts. As in the previous section, some are critical assessments, others adumbrate the ways in which these insights might be successfully appropriated for such a praxis. This superb anthology addresses the critical need for material directly addressing the politics and ethics implied by Merleau-Ponty's later works.

Author : Sophie Loidolt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351804028

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Phenomenology of Plurality by Sophie Loidolt Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Edwin Ballard Prize awarded by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology This book develops a unique phenomenology of plurality by introducing Hannah Arendt’s work into current debates taking place in the phenomenological tradition. Loidolt offers a systematic treatment of plurality that unites the fields of phenomenology, political theory, social ontology, and Arendt studies to offer new perspectives on key concepts such as intersubjectivity, selfhood, personhood, sociality, community, and conceptions of the "we." Phenomenology of Plurality is an in-depth, phenomenological analysis of Arendt that represents a viable third way between the "modernist" and "postmodernist" camps in Arendt scholarship. It also introduces a number of political and ethical insights that can be drawn from a phenomenology of plurality. This book will appeal to scholars interested in the topics of plurality and intersubjectivity within phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy.

Author : Rosalyn Diprose
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791488843

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Corporeal Generosity by Rosalyn Diprose Pdf

Rosalyn Diprose contends that generosity is not just a human virtue, but it is an openness to others that is critical to our existence, sociality, and social formation. Her theory challenges the accepted model of generosity as a common character trait that guides a person to give something they possess away to others within an exchange economy. This book places giving in the realm of ontology, as well as the area of politics and social production, as it promotes ways to foster social relations that generate sexual, cultural, and stylistic differences. The analyses in the book theorize generosity in terms of intercorporeal relations where the self is given to others. Drawing primarily on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and offering critical interpretations of feminist philosophers such as Beauvoir and Butler, the author builds a politically sensitive notion of generosity.

Author : Rosalyn Diprose,Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317493044

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Merleau-Ponty by Rosalyn Diprose,Jack Reynolds Pdf

Having initially not had the attention of Sartre or Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty's work is arguably now more widely influential than either of his two contemporaries. "Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts" presents an accessible guide to the core ideas which structure Merleau-Ponty's thinking as well as to his influences and the value of his ideas to a wide range of disciplines. The first section of the book presents the context of Merleau-Ponty's thinking, the major debates of his time, particularly existentialism, phenomenology, the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history and society. The second section outlines his major contributions and conceptual innovations. The final section focuses upon how his work has been taken up in other fields besides philosophy, notably in sociology, cognitive science, health studies, feminism and race theory.

Author : Suzanne L. Cataldi,William S. Hamrick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791480243

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Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy by Suzanne L. Cataldi,William S. Hamrick Pdf

Connects the work of Merleau-Ponty to environmental studies. This richly diverse collection looks at the contemporary relevance of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to environmental issues and builds a coherent philosophical ecology based on his thought. The contributors describe and analyze relations within the natural world by focusing on the centrality of relations in Merleau-Ponty’s work; his concept of the bond between humanity and nature; and his novel philosophies of perception, embodiment, and “wild” Being. Eco-phenomenologies of living places such as Central Park in New York City, Midwestern farmlands, and communal household dwellings of Pacific Northwest Coast people are closely examined. The contributors also explore Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy for environmental ethics and develop notions such as vital values, somatic empathy, and interspecies sociality. Suzanne L. Cataldi is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the author of Emotion, Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space: Reflections on Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Embodiment, also published by SUNY Press. William S. Hamrick is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the author of the SUNY Press book Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart, winner of the 2004 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology.

Author : Mark Sanders,J. Jeremy Wisnewski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739174869

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Ethics and Phenomenology by Mark Sanders,J. Jeremy Wisnewski Pdf

Ethics and Phenomenology is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between moral philosophy and the phenomenological tradition. Phenomenology is a vast and rich philosophical tradition which seeks to explain how we perceive the world. This, in turn, involves questions about one’s relationship to the world and how one both acts and should act in the world. For this reason phenomenology entails an ethics, even if such an ethics is not always apparent in the work of phenomenological thinkers. The book is devoted to two central tasks: Section One offers essays exploring the resources available to moral philosophy in the work of the major phenomenologists of the 20th-century, including Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and others. Part Two consists of essays demonstrating the way that the phenomenological method can facilitate advances in our thinking through the exploration of contemporary ethical issues, including environmentalism, intellectual property, parenting and others.