The Problem of Difference : Phenomenology and Poststructuralism.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
- Toronto Studies in Philosophy Series .
- Toronto Studies in Philosophy Series .
Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: The Problem of Difference -- PART 1: HUSSERL -- I. The Linguistic and Perceptual Models -- 1. Truth and Object-ivity -- 2. The Linguistic Model -- 3. The Perceptual Model -- 4. The Paradox of Fulfilment -- II. The Perceptual Noema -- 1. Self-Constitution -- 2. Morphological Essences -- 3. The Noema -- 4. The Perceptual Noema -- Concept Theory -- Percept Theory -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- PART 2: MERLEAU-PONTY -- III. The Middle Path -- 1. Merleau-Ponty's 'Noematic Analysis' -- 2. The Problem of 'the Other' -- 3. Paradox and the Middle Path -- IV. From Psychology to Phenomenology -- 1. Paradox and 'Structure' -- 2. Behaviour -- 3. Virtual Reality: The Human/Animal Distinction -- 4. The'Primacy of Perception' -- V. Merleau-Ponty and the Transcendental Tradition -- 1. Phenomenology as Transcendental Critique -- 2. Psychopathology and the Experience of the World -- 3. The Body-Subject and the Problem of 'the Other' -- VI. The Social Self -- 1. The Paradox of Limitation and Access -- 2. Art: Reflections on Cézanne -- 3. Language: -- Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, and the 'Private Language' Argument -- The Influence of Saussure -- 4. Culture: Lévi-Strauss and the Social Self -- VII. Untaming the Flesh -- 1. Introduction: Flesh as Differentiating Condition -- 2. Lefort: Flesh Is Immanence -- 3. Dillon: Flesh Is Transcendence -- 4. Flesh and Paradoxa -- PART 3: THE POSTSTRUCTURALIST TURN -- VIII. Cinema Paradoxa -- 1. Paradox -- 2. Cinema -- The Mind-Body Problem -- Deleuze's Transcendental Critique -- Merleau-Ponty Revisited -- Peirce's Categories -- At the Movies -- 3. The Poststructuralist Turn -- Conclusion: The Search for 'Rosebud' -- 1. The Question -- 2. Husserl -- 3. Merleau-Ponty -- 4. Citizen Kane -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L. M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Jeffrey A. Bell here presents a finely constructed survey of the contemporary continental philosophers, focusing on how they have dealt with the problem of difference.