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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weiss, Gail, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Connects Merleau-Ponty's thought to themes and issues central to continental philosophy today.

Contents:

Intro

I N T E R T W I N I N G S

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

P A R T I. Ontological and Developmental Concerns:Difference and the Other

1. Merleau-Ponty, Bergson,and the Question of Ontology

2. Elemental Alterity:Levinas and Merleau-Ponty

3. The Developing Body:A Reading of Merleau-Ponty'sConception of Women in the Sorbonne Lectures

P A R T II. Feminist Possibilities:Reading Irigaray,Reading Merleau-Ponty

4. Phenomenology in the Feminine:Irigaray's Relationship to Merleau-Ponty

5. The Language of the Lips,Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray:Toward a Culture of Difference

P A R T III. Literary Enactments:Merleau-Ponty, Proust, and Stein

6. Among the Hawthorns:Marcel Proust and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

7. "Mixing the Outside with the Inside":Interior Geographies and Domestic Horizons in Gertrude Stein

P A R T IV. Ethical Challenges:Recognition, Reciprocity,Violence, and Care

8. Beyond Recognition:Merleau-Ponty and an Ethics of Vision

9. Ethical Reciprocity at the Interstices of Communion and Disruption

10. Merleau-Ponty, Reciprocity,and the Reversibility of Perspectives

11. Entering the Place We Already Live:A Phenomenology of Female Voice

12. Resources for Feminist Care Ethics in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of the Body

P A R T V. Sedimented Meanings:Conservation and Transformation

13. Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks?Habitual Horizons in James,Bourdieu, and Merleau-Ponty

14. The Borderlands of Identity and Culture

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

Contributors

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791477649

0791477649

9781441621085

1441621083

OCLC:

436281288