Mead and Merleau-Ponty

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

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.

The Intercorporeal Self

The Intercorporeal Self
Author: Scott L. Marratto
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438442335

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.

Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Thought of George Herbert Mead

Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Thought of George Herbert Mead
Author: Mitchell Aboulafia
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1991-01-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791494152

This book brings together some of the finest recent critical and expository work on Mead, written by American and European thinkers from diverse traditions. For English-speaking audiences it provides an introduction to recent European work on Mead. The essays reveal the richness of Mead's thought, and will stimulate those who have thought about him from very specific vantage points (behaviorism, symbolic interactionism, pragmatism, etc.) to consider him in new ways.

Phenomenology of Perception

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

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

Merleau-Ponty

Merleau-Ponty
Author: Stephen Priest
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134924607

In this wide-ranging and penetrative study, Stephen Priest uses clear and direct language to explain the thoughts and ensuing importance of one of the greatest contemporary thinkers.

Child Psychology and Pedagogy

Child Psychology and Pedagogy
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2010-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810126141

Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the few major phenomenologists to engage extensively with empirical research in the sciences, and the only one to examine child psychology with rigor and in such depth. His writings have recently become increasingly influential, as the findings of psychology and cognitive science inform and are informed by phenomenological inquiry. Merleau-Ponty’s Sorbonne lectures of 1949 to 1952 are a broad investigation into child psychology, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, phenomenology, sociology, and anthropology. They argue that the subject of child psychology is critical for any philosophical attempt to understand individual and intersubjective existence. Talia Welsh’s new translation provides Merleau-Ponty’s complete lectures on the seminal engagement of phenomenology and psychology.

The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism

The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism
Author: Steve Odin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791424926

This is the first book on East-West comparative thought to critically analyze the Zen Buddhist model of self in modern Japanese philosophy from the standpoint of American pragmatism.

Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy

Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy
Author: Suzanne L. Cataldi
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2007-04-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791480240

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.

G. H. Mead

G. H. Mead
Author: Hans Joas
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997-09-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780262600293

This major study reassesses the work of the American pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), which had a significant impact in fields ranging from metaphysics and ethics to sociology and social psychology. The work of American pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a strong influence in fields ranging from metaphysics and ethics to sociology and social psychology. In this book, Hans Joas interweaves Mead's political and intellectual biography with the development of his theories. The key concept of the study is "practical intersubjectivity," a term Joas introduces to characterize the link implicit in Mead's work between a theory of intersubjectivity and a theory of praxis. Throughout the book, Joas stresses the practical, social, and political nature of Mead's work. Besides comparing Mead to the other American pragmatists, Joas discusses the relation between Mead's thought and that of such Europeans as Habermas, Apel, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Piaget. Joas's revisionist portrait of Mead as a socially engaged intellectual, with its emphasis on his relevance for contemporary philosophy and social science, has been a key factor in the revival of interest in Mead. The author's new preface includes an update on pragmatism studies in general and on Mead studies in particular.

Merleau-Ponty Vivant

Merleau-Ponty Vivant
Author: Martin C. Dillon
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791406588

Situates Merleau-Ponty's thinking in the last decade of the twentieth century, both with regard to general context and specific themes.