Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression

Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression
Author: Donald A. Landes
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441125744

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Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression offers a comprehensive reading of the philosophical work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a central figure in 20th-century continental philosophy. By establishing that the paradoxical logic of expression is Merleau-Ponty's fundamental philosophical gesture, this book ties together his diverse work on perception, language, aesthetics, politics and history in order to establish the ontological position he was developing at the time of his sudden death in 1961. Donald A. Landes explores the paradoxical logic of expression as it appears in both Merleau-Ponty's explicit reflections on expression and his non-explicit uses of this logic in his philosophical reflection on other topics, and thus establishes a continuity and a trajectory of his thought that allows for his work to be placed into conversation with contemporary developments in continental philosophy. The book offers the reader a key to understanding Merleau-Ponty's subtle methodology and highlights the urgency and relevance of his research into the ontological significance of expression for today's work in art and cultural theory.

Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression

Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression
Author: Donald A. Landes
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441134786

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Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression offers a comprehensive reading of the philosophical work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a central figure in 20th-century continental philosophy. By establishing that the paradoxical logic of expression is Merleau-Ponty's fundamental philosophical gesture, this book ties together his diverse work on perception, language, aesthetics, politics and history in order to establish the ontological position he was developing at the time of his sudden death in 1961. Donald A. Landes explores the paradoxical logic of expression as it appears in both Merleau-Ponty's explicit reflections on expression and his non-explicit uses of this logic in his philosophical reflection on other topics, and thus establishes a continuity and a trajectory of his thought that allows for his work to be placed into conversation with contemporary developments in continental philosophy. The book offers the reader a key to understanding Merleau-Ponty's subtle methodology and highlights the urgency and relevance of his research into the ontological significance of expression for today's work in art and cultural theory.

The Sensible World and the World of Expression

The Sensible World and the World of Expression
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2020-02-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810141426

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The Sensible World and the World of Expression presents the lecture notes for a course taught by Maurice Marleau-Ponty, a central figure of phenomenological philosophy, at a key point in his career.

Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language

Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language
Author: Dimitris Apostolopoulos
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2019-09-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1786612003

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Merleau-Ponty’s status as a philosopher of perception is well-established, but his distinctive contributions to the philosophy and phenomenology of language have yet to be fully appreciated. Through detailed, clear, and accessible analyses of Merleau-Ponty’s views of linguistic meaning, expression, and understanding, and by tracing the evolution and development of these views throughout the course of his philosophical career, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language offers a global and comprehensive picture of his engagement with the philosophy of language. This book demonstrates that the phenomenology of language is essential for grasping the meaning and motivations behind some of Merleau-Ponty’s most celebrated philosophical contributions. It argues that his philosophy of language should take on a central role in our appraisal of the development and basic goals of his thought. And it suggests that the success of phenomenology’s return to the ‘things themselves’ must be judged not only by the evidence of intuition, but also by the labour of expression.

Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty

Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty
Author: Susan Bredlau
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438486871

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work draws our attention to how the body is always our way of having a world and never merely a thing in the world. Our conception of the body must take account of our cultures, our historically located sciences, and our interpersonal relations and cannot reduce the body to a biological given. Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty takes up Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the body to explore the ideas of normality, abnormality, and pathology. Focusing on the lived experiences of various styles of embodiment, the book challenges our usual conceptions of normality and abnormality and shows how seemingly objective scientific research, such as the study of pathological symptoms, is inadequate to the phenomena it purports to comprehend. The book offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.

Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity

Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity
Author: Anya Daly
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137527447

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This book draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to explicate Merleau-Ponty’s unwritten ethics. Daly contends that though Merleau-Ponty never developed an ethics per se, there is significant textual evidence that clearly indicates he had the intention to do so. This book highlights the explicit references to ethics that he offers and proposes that these, allied to his ontological commitments, provide the basis for the development of an ethics. In this work Daly shows how Merleau-Ponty’s relational ontology, in which the interdependence of self, other and world is affirmed, offers an entirely new approach to ethics. In contrast to the ‘top-down’ ethics of norms, obligations and prescriptions, Daly maintains that Merleau-Ponty’s ethics is a ‘bottom-up’ ethics which depends on direct insight into our own intersubjective natures, the ‘I’ within the ‘we’ and the ‘we’ within the ‘I’; insight into the real nature of our relation to others and the particularities of the given situation. Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity is an important contribution to the scholarship on the later Merleau-Ponty which will be of interest to graduate students and scholars. Daly offers informed readings of Merleau-Ponty’s texts and the overall approach is both scholarly and innovative.

The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary

The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary
Author: Donald A. Landes
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441176357

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A thoroughly comprehensive and accessible reference tool for students of Merleau-Ponty, navigating his major works, influences and key concepts.

Perception and its Development in Merleau-Ponty's 'Phemenology'

Perception and its Development in Merleau-Ponty's 'Phemenology'
Author: Kirsten Jacobson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487501285

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Perception and Its Development in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology brings together essays from fifteen leading Merleau-Ponty scholars to demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's analysis.

Resistance of the Sensible World

Resistance of the Sensible World
Author: Emmanuel Alloa
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0823275698

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In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–61). Through a comprehensive analysis of the three main phases of Merleau-Ponty’s thinking and a thorough knowledge of his many unpublished manuscripts, the author traces how Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy evolved and exposes the remarkable coherence that structures it from within. Alloa teases out the continuity of a motive that traverses the entire oeuvre as a common thread. Merleau-Ponty struggled incessantly against any kind of ideology of transparency, whether of the world, of the self, of knowledge, or of the self’s relation to others. Already translated into several languages, Alloa’s innovative reading of this crucially important thinker shows why the issues Merleau-Ponty raised are, more than ever, those of our time.

Phenomenology of Perception

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

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