Intertwinings : interdisciplinary encounters with Merleau-Ponty / edited by Gail Weiss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weiss, Gail, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Physical Description:

ix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Contents:

Part I Ontological and Developmental Concerns: Difference and the Other

1 Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology / Elizabeth Grosz 13

2 Elemental Alterity: Levinas and Merleau-Ponty / Lawrence Hass 31

3 The Developing Body: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty's Conception of Women in the Sorbonne Lectures / Talia Welsh 45

Part II Feminist Possibilities: Reading Irigaray, Reading Merleau-Ponty

4 Phenomenology in the Feminine: Irigaray's Relationship to Merleau-Ponty / Annemie Halsema 63

5 The Language of the Lips, Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray: Toward a Culture of Difference / Bruce Young 85

Part III Literary Enactments: Merleau-Ponty, Proust, and Stein

6 Among the Hawthorns: Marcel Proust and Maurice Merleau-Ponty / Patricia M. Locke 99

7 "Mixing the Outside with the Inside": Interior Geographies and Domestic Horizons in Gertrude Stein / Justine Dymond 111

Part IV Ethical Challenges: Recognition, Reciprocity, Violence, and Care

8 Beyond Recognition: Merleau-Ponty and an Ethics of Vision / Kelly Oliver 131

9 Ethical Reciprocity at the Interstices of Communion and Disruption / Sally Fischer 153

10 Merleau-Ponty, Reciprocity, and the Reversibility of Perspectives / Greg Johnson 169

11 Entering the Place We Already Live: A Phenomenology of Female Voice / Janice McLane 189

12 Resources for Feminist Care Ethics in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of the Body / Maurice Hamington 203

Part V Sedimented Meanings: Conservation and Transformation

13 Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks? Habitual Horizons in James, Bourdieu, and Merleau-Ponty / Gail Weiss 223

14 The Borderlands of Identity and Culture / Rashmika Pandya 241

15 Entwining the Body and the World: Architectural Design and Experience in the Light of "Eye and Mind" / Rachel McCann 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791475898

0791475891

OCLC:

183392472