The intercorporeal self : Merleau-Ponty on subjectivity / Scott L. Marratto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marratto, Scott L. (Scott Louis), 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Subjectivity.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2012]

Summary:

Challenging a prevalent Western idea of die self as a discrete, interior consciousness, Scott L. Marratto argues instead that subjectivity is a characteristic of the living, expressive movement establishing a dynamic intertwining between a sentient body and its environment. He draws on the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, contemporary European philosophy, and research in cognitive science and development to offer a compelling investigation into what it means to be a self. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Situation and the Embodied Mind 11

I Mind, Self, World 11

Representation 13

Behavior 15

Situated Cognition 19

II Perception 22

Sensation 22

Spatiality 28

III Situated Subjectivity 34

Chapter 2 Making Space 39

I Subjectivity, Sensation, and Depth 39

Affordance Depth 46

Spectral Depth 48

Spatial 'Levels' 54

Time, Space, and Sensation 55

The Depth of the Past 65

II Learning 66

Chapter 3 Subjectivity and the 'Style' of the World 79

I The 'Subject' and the 'World' of Situated Cognition 79

Sensorimotor Laws 80

Sensorimotor Subjectivity 85

Ecological Laws 88

Ecological Subjectivity 90

II Perception and Subjectivity beyond Metaphysics 94

Chapter 4 Auto-affection and Alterity 113

I Presence 113

The 'Privilege' of the Present 118

Auto-affection 125

II The Deconstruction of Presence 128

Derrida's Appraisal of Husserl's Phenomenology 128

Derrida on the Lived Body ('Leib'; 'le corps propre') 133

Derrida's Deconstruction of 'Intercorporeity' 139

III Auto-hetero-affection in Merleau-Ponty 141

Intercorporeity and Intersubjectivity 141

Body Schema 148

Auto-hetero-affection as the Advent of the Intercorporeal Body 155

Chapter 5 Ipseity and Language 165

I Language and Gesture 165

The Tacit Cogito 169

Perceptual Meaning and Natural Expression 172

The Paradox of Expression 176

Institution 179

II Diacritical Intercorporeity 181

III Expression and Subjectivity 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438442310

1438442319

OCLC:

739914185