Merleau Ponty And Theology

Author : Christopher Ben Simpson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 269 pages
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Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780567655479

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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 : Orion Edgar
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Kascha Semonovitch,Neal DeRoo
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Andreas Nordlander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9174732013

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Figuring flesh in creation by Andreas Nordlander Pdf

Author : Christopher Ben Simpson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 190 pages
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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 : Michael P. Berman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Louise Westling
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823255672

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The Logos of the Living World by Louise Westling Pdf

Today we urgently need to reevaluate the human place in the world in relation to other animals. This book puts Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy into dialogue with literature, evolutionary biology, and animal studies. In a radical departure from most critical animal studies, it argues for evolutionary continuity between human cultural and linguistic behaviors and the semiotic activities of other animals. In his late work, Derrida complained of philosophers who denied that animals possessed such faculties, but he never investigated the wealth of scientific studies of actual animal behavior. Most animal studies theorists still fail to do this. Yet more than fifty years ago, Merleau-Ponty carefully examined the philosophical consequences of scientific animal studies, with profound implications for human language and culture. For him, “animality is the logos of the sensible world: an incorporated meaning.” Human being is inseparable from animality. This book differs from other studies of Merleau-Ponty by emphasizing his lifelong attention to science. It shows how his attention to evolutionary biology and ethology anticipated recent studies of animal cognition, culture, and communication.

Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810106159

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The Prose of the World by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Pdf

The work that Maurice Merleau-Ponty planned to call The Prose of the World, or Introduction to the Prose of the World, was unfinished at the time of his death. The book was to constitute the first section of a two-part work whose aim was to offer, as an extension of his Phenomenology of Perception, a theory of truth. This edition's editor, Claude Lefort, has interpreted and transcribed the surviving typescript, reproducing Merleau-Ponty's own notes and adding documentation and commentary.

Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8120813464

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Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Pdf

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Author : Orion Edgar
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227175941

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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 Things Seen and Unseen, 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. 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 Christian theology a route away from dualistic compromises and back to its own deepest insight.

Author : Heike Peckruhn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190280925

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Meaning in Our Bodies by Heike Peckruhn Pdf

Movement, smell, vision, and other perceptual experiences are ways of thinking and orienting ourselves in the world. And yet the appeal to experience as resource for theology, though a significant shift in contemporary scholarship, has seldom received nuanced investigation. How do embodied differences like gender, race, disability, and sexuality highlight theological analysis and connect to perceptual experience and theological imagination? In Meaning in Our Bodies, Heike Peckruhn offers historical and cultural comparisons, showing how sensory experience may order normalcy, social status, or communal belonging. Ultimately, she argues that scholars who appeal to the importance of bodily experiences need to acquire a robust and nuanced understanding of how sensory perceptions and interactions are cultural and theological acts of making meaning.

Author : Mayra Rivera
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780822374930

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Poetics of the Flesh by Mayra Rivera Pdf

In Poetics of the Flesh Mayra Rivera offers poetic reflections on how we understand our carnal relationship to the world, at once spiritual, organic, and social. She connects conversations about corporeality in theology, political theory, and continental philosophy to show the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and modern Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh.” Her readings of the biblical writings of John and Paul as well as the work of Tertullian illustrate how Christian ideas of flesh influenced the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, and inform her readings of Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, and others. Rivera also furthers developments in new materialism by exploring the intersections among bodies, material elements, social arrangements, and discourses through body and flesh. By painting a complex picture of bodies, and by developing an account of how the social materializes in flesh, Rivera provides a new way to understand gender and race.

Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810102536

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Signs by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Pdf

"Merleau-Ponty was one of the few philosophers of today who never lost contact with 'brute reality'; and it may be that Signs will be read with regret in bringing to mind his untimely death, yet with gratitude for the human ity and depth of philosophical insight into the world of lived reality which it offers."--Journal of Individual Psychology.

Author : Dominique Janicaud,Jean-Louis Chrétien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823220532

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Phenomenology and the "theological Turn" by Dominique Janicaud,Jean-Louis Chrétien Pdf

Phenomenology and the Theological Turnbrings together the debate over Janicaud's critique of the theological turnrepresented by the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricour, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Franois Courtine, Jean-Louis Chrtien, and Michel Henry.

Author : Jin Y. Park,Gereon Kopf
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739140772

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Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism by Jin Y. Park,Gereon Kopf Pdf

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions, Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a Buddhist worldview is articulated in the theory of dependent co-arising, or the middle path, which comprehends the world and beings in the third space, where the subject and the object, or eternalism and annihilation, exist independent of one another. The thirteen essays in this volume explore this third space in their discussions of Merleau-Ponty's concepts of the intentional arc, the flesh of the world, and the chiasm of visibility in connection with the Buddhist doctrine of no-self and the five aggregates, the Tiantai Buddhist concept of threefold truth, Zen Buddhist huatou meditation, the invocation of the Amida Buddha in True Pure Land Buddhism, and Nishida's concept of basho.