Author : Martin C. Dillon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : 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.
Author : Dr. Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317494067
Understanding Existentialism provides an accessible introduction to existentialism by examining the major themes in the work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and de Beauvoir. Paying particular attention to the key texts, Being and Time, Being and Nothingness, Phenomenology of Perception, The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex, the book explores the shared concerns and the disagreements between these major thinkers. The fundamental existential themes examined include: freedom; death, finitude and mortality; phenomenological experiences and 'moods', such as anguish, angst, nausea, boredom, and fear; an emphasis upon authenticity and responsibility as well as the denigration of their opposites (inauthenticity and Bad Faith); a pessimism concerning the tendency of individuals to become lost in the crowd and even a pessimism about human relations more generally; and a rejection of any external determination of morality or value. Finally, the book assesses the influence of these philosophers on poststructuralism, arguing that existentialism remains an extraordinarily productive school of thought.
Author : Sandra B. Rosenthal
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : 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.
Author : Emmanuel Alloa
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438476922
Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The recent publication of his lecture courses and posthumous working notes has opened new avenues for both the interpretation of his thought and philosophy in general. These works confirm that, with a surprising premonition, Merleau-Ponty addressed many of the issues that concern philosophy today. With the benefit of this fuller picture of his thought, Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy undertakes an assessment of the philosopher's relevance for contemporary thinking. Covering a diverse range of topics, including ontology, epistemology, anthropology, embodiment, animality, politics, language, aesthetics, and art, the editors gather representative voices from North America and Europe, including both Merleau-Ponty specialists and thinkers who have come to the philosopher's work through their own thematic interest.
Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1996-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810113015
For over thirty years, Hegel scholars have known that many of the views of Hegel rife in the Anglo-Saxon world are higly inaccurate. The essays collected in this volume show the myths and legends to be just that. The author has selected a set of essays that treat and effectively debunk the various Hegel myths and legends. Divided into sections addressing the various myths and augmented by Stewart's informative introduction and a bibliography, this collection should be of interest to scholars and nonspecialists alike.
Author : Martin C. Dillon
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810115286
Dillon's general thesis is that Merleau-Ponty has developed the first genuine alternative to ontological dualism seen in Western philosophy.
Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 1998-06-08
Category : 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.
Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810101647
Selected essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty published from 1947 to 1961.
Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438483090
Pragmatism's revival since 1980 can be credited to several thinkers, among them the longtime professor of philosophy at Temple University, Joseph Margolis. The Critical Margolis collects within one volume more than a dozen of his essential writings, allowing readers to become familiar with his important contributions to core areas of philosophy, where he has controversially challenged scientistic, analytic, and continental traditions. During a period when sharp divides animate intellectual debates—realism or idealism, matter or mind, causality or freedom, machines or persons, facts or values, cognition or emotion, and the like—Margolis dissolves false dichotomies and reconstructs philosophy itself. Prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century, from Quine, Danto, and Putnam to Derrida, Rorty, and Brandom, along with a host of similarly significant thinkers, are targets of Margolis's critiques. If there could be a comprehensive volume of pragmatism for today and tomorrow, The Critical Margolis shall serve.
Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810110741
Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank even today among the most sophisticated reflections on art in all of twentieth-century philosophy. His essays on painting, "Cezanne's Doubt" (1945), "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence" (1952), and "Eye and Mind" (1960), have inspired new approaches to epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of history. Galen A. Johnson has gathered these essays for the first time into a single volume and augmented them with essays by distinguished scholars and artists, including M.C. Dillon, Mikel Dufrenne, and René Magritte. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic.
