Vers une nouvelle philosophie transcendantale

Vers une nouvelle philosophie transcendantale
Author: T.F. Geraets
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401029849

Depuis la vigoureuse monographie que, en 1951, Alphonse de Waelhens consacra, sous le Ie titre de {laquo}Vne {laquo}Une philosophie philosophie de de l'Ambi l'Ambi guite{raquo} guite{raquo} a la pensee de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, la reflexion et les etudes sur les divers aspects de eette cette pensee pensee se se multiplierent multiplierent en en Franee France et dans le Ie monde. monde. La mort prematuree du philosophe en 1961, n'a pas diminue l'inMret l'interet qu'avaient suscite ses eerits ecrits et son enseignement. Des notes et des resumes de cours, des manuscrits manuserits inedits pieusement reunis par des disciples, diseiples, furent publies depuis lors. {laquo}Le Visible et l'Invisible, suivi de notes de travail{raquo}, paru en 1964, revela les perspeetives perspectives nouvelles d'une oeuvre qui apparaU ainsi eomme comme la plus riehe riche en possibilites, possibilit6s, parmi toutes eelles celles que, que, meme meme sur sur sa terre natale, inspira la phenomenologie de Husserl et de Heidegger. La philosophie de Merleau-Ponty ne se limite ee ce pendant a aucune ecole. Elle reste ouverte sur les problemes de son temps et notamment sur eeux ceux que, que, des des avant la penetration de la phenomenologie en France, posaient, en Allemagne et en Amerique, les sciences humaines: la psychologie dite de la Gestalt, le Ie behaviourisme, behaviourisme, la psychanalyse. psyehanalyse.

Immersing in the Concrete

Immersing in the Concrete
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 940171830X

The world was first introduced to the expertise and originality of Japanese scholars in phenomenology in Analecta Husserliana Vol. IX (1979). The third generation of Japanese scholars, belonging to the newly-founded Merleau-Ponty Japanese Circle, are now presented. Following Merleau-Ponty's tendency, the studies collected here seem to make a fresh phenomenological start in relation to classical Husserlian phenomenology, turning deliberately towards the `concrete', `the wild world', `flesh', `embodiment', `natural signs', `primal nature'. The rule of intentionality, natural language is thereby devalued. The wealth of insights, the freshness of intuition and the seminal power of these fascinating enquiries well merit a close reading.

The Idea of the Self

The Idea of the Self
Author: Jerrold Seigel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2005-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139459813

What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that still resound today. In this 2005 book, Jerrold Seigel provides an original and penetrating narrative of how major Western European thinkers and writers have confronted the self since the time of Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. From an approach that is at once theoretical and contextual, he examines the way figures in Britain, France, and Germany have understood whether and how far individuals can achieve coherence and consistency in the face of the inner tensions and external pressures that threaten to divide or overwhelm them. He makes clear that recent 'postmodernist' accounts of the self belong firmly to the tradition of Western thinking they have sought to supersede, and provides an open-ended and persuasive alternative to claims that the modern self is typically egocentric or disengaged.

The Question of Painting

The Question of Painting
Author: Jorella Andrews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018-11-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 147257429X

Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is all too often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagement. How can paintings change the world today? The question of painting, in particular, fuelled the investigations of a major 20th-century philosopher: the French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907-61). Merleau-Ponty was at the forefront of attempts to place philosophy on a new footing by contravening the authority of Cartesian dualism and objectivist thought-an authority that continues to limit present-day intellectual, imaginative, and ethical possibilities. A central aim of The Question of Painting is to provide a closely focused, chronological account of his unfolding project and its relationship with art, clarifying how painting, as a paradigmatically embodied and situated mode of investigation, helped him to access the fundamentally “intercorporeal” basis of reality as he saw it, and articulate its lived implications. With an exclusive and extended conversation about the contemporary virtues of painting with New York based artist Leah Durner, for whom the work of Merleau-Ponty is an important source of inspiration, The Question of Painting brings today's much debated concerns about the criticality of painting into contact with the question of painting in philosophy.

Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy

Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy
Author: Bryan A. Smyth
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1780937865

Bringing to light the essential philosophical role of Marxism within Merleau-Ponty's reinterpretation of transcendental phenomenology, this book shows that the realization of this project hinges methodologically upon a renewed conception of the proletariat qua universal class-specifically, that it rests upon a humanist myth of incarnation which, substantiated by Merleau-Ponty's notion of 'heroism', locates an objective historical purposiveness in the habituated organism of the modern subject. Foregrounding the phenomenological priority of history over corporeality in this way, Smyth's analysis recovers the 'militant' character of Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology. It thus sheds critical new light on his early thought, and challenges some of the main parameters of existing scholarship by disclosing the intrinsic normativity of his basic methodological commitments.

Between Cultures

Between Cultures
Author: Jerrold Seigel
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812247612

Masquerade, engagement, and skepticism : Richard Burton -- Commitment and loss : T. E. Lawrence -- The Islamic Catholicism of Louis Massignon -- Independence and ambivalence : Chinua Achebe and two African contemporaries -- Reflection, mystery, and violence : Orhan Pamuk

Phenomenology of Perception

Phenomenology of Perception
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135718679

First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Phénoménologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of twentieth-century thought. This new translation, the first for over fifty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers. Phenomenology of Perception stands in the great phenomenological tradition of Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Yet Merleau-Ponty’s contribution is decisive, as he brings this tradition and other philosophical predecessors, particularly Descartes and Kant, to confront a neglected dimension of our experience: the lived body and the phenomenal world. Charting a bold course between the reductionism of science on the one hand and "intellectualism" on the other, Merleau-Ponty argues that we should regard the body not as a mere biological or physical unit, but as the body which structures one’s situation and experience within the world. Merleau-Ponty enriches his classic work with engaging studies of famous cases in the history of psychology and neurology as well as phenomena that continue to draw our attention, such as phantom limb syndrome, synaesthesia, and hallucination. This new translation includes many helpful features such as the reintroduction of Merleau-Ponty’s discursive Table of Contents as subtitles into the body of the text, a comprehensive Translator’s Introduction to its main themes, essential notes explaining key terms of translation, an extensive Index, and an important updating of Merleau-Ponty’s references to now available English translations. Also included is a new foreword by Taylor Carman and an introduction to Merleau-Ponty by Claude Lefort. Translated by Donald A. Landes.

The Subject(s) of Phenomenology

The Subject(s) of Phenomenology
Author: Iulian Apostolescu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2019-12-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030293572

Bringing together established researchers and emerging scholars alike to discuss new readings of Husserl and to reignite the much needed discussion of what phenomenology actually is and can possibly be about, this volume sets out to critically re-evaluate (and challenge) the predominant interpretations of Husserl’s philosophy, and to adapt phenomenology to the specific philosophical challenges and context of the 21st century. “What is phenomenology?”, Maurice Merleau-Ponty asks at the beginning of his Phenomenology of Perception – and he continues: “It may seem strange that this question still has to be asked half a century after the first works of Husserl. It is, however, far from being resolved.” Even today, more than half a century after Merleau-Ponty’s magnum opus, the answer is in many ways still up for grasp. While it may seem obvious that the main subject of phenomenological inquiry is, in fact, the subject, it is anything but self evident what this precisely implies: Considering the immense variety of different themes and methodological self-revisions found in Husserl’s philosophy – from its Brentanian beginnings to its transcendental re-interpretation and, last but not least, to its ‘crypto-deconstruction’ in the revisions of his early manuscripts and in his later work –, one cannot but acknowledge the fact that ‘the’ subject of phenomenology marks an irreducible plurality of possible subjects. Paying tribute to this irreducible plurality the volume sets out to develop interpretative takes on the phenomenological tradition which transcend both its naive celebration and its brute rejection, to re-articulate the positions of other philosophers within the framework of Husserl’s thought, and to engage in an investigative dialogue between traditionally opposed camps within phenomenology and beyond.

A Companion to Continental Philosophy

A Companion to Continental Philosophy
Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 706
Release: 1998-06-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0631190139

Covering the complete development of post-Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are integrally related to Continental and European Philosophy.