Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy : Transforming the Tradition.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought Series .
- SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought Series .
Intro -- MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF PHILOSOPHY -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. HOMAGE TO MERLEAU-PONTY -- 3. MERLEAU-PONTY: Beyond Husserl and Heidegger (1989) -- 4. THE TURN OF EXPERIENCE: Merleau-Ponty and Bergson -- 5. COMMUNITY, SOCIETY, AND HISTORY IN THE LATER MERLEAU-PONTY -- 6. TRACEWORK: Experience and Description in the MoralPhenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas -- 7. MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION OF SKEPTICISM -- 8. THE ELEMENTAL FLESH: Nature, Life, and Difference in Merleau-Ponty and Plato's Timaeus -- 9. THE BLIND SPOT -- 10. PROXIMITY AND DISTANCE: With Regard to Heidegger in the Later Merleau-Ponty -- 11. CHIASM, FLESH, FIGURATION: Toward a Non-Positive Ontology -- 12. PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ICON -- 13. ON THE "FUNDAMENTAL OF PAINTING: "Chinese Counterpoint -- 14. VARIATIONS OF THE SENSIBLE: The Truth of Ideas and Idea of Philosophy in the Later Merleau-Ponty -- 15. THE BODY OF SPEECH -- 16. BODY, FLESH -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Leading scholars engage the later contributions of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.