Selfhood and appearing : the intertwining / by James Mensch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mensch, James R.

Series:

Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology 17.

Studies in contemporary phenomenology, 1875-2470 ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Self (Philosophy).

Appearance (Philosophy).

Patočka, Jan, 1907-1977.

Patočka, Jan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

What is the relation between our selfhood and appearing? Our embodiment positions us in the world, situating us as an object among its visible objects. Yet, by opening and shutting our eyes, we can make the visible world appear and disappear—a fact that convinces us that the world is in us. Thus, we have to assert with Merleau-Ponty that we are in the world that is in us: the two are intertwined. Author James Mensch employs the insights of Jan Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology to understand this double relationship of being-in. In this volume, he shows how this relation constitutes the reality of our selfhood, shaping our social and political interactions as well as the violence that constantly threatens to undermine them.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Selfhood

Patočka and Artificial Intelligence

The Question of Naturalizing Phenomenology

The Temporality of Merleau-Ponty’s Intertwining

The Intertwining as a Form of Our Motion of Existence

Aristotle’s Account of Space and Time

Arousal and Desire

Temporality and the Alterity of Space

Embodied Temporalization and the Mind-Body Problem

Intersubjectivity

Self-Touch and the Perception of the Other

The Intertwining of Generations

Public Space and Embodiment

Patočka’s Transformation of Phenomenology

Human Rights and the Motion of Existence

Violence and the Political

Violence and Blindness: The Case of Uchuraccay

Selfhood and Violence

Senseless Violence: Liminality and Intertwining

Violence and Existence—Schmitt’s Concept of the Political

Religion

Binding and Unbinding in the Religions of the Book

Transcendence and Intertwining

Incarnation as Embodiment

The Animal and the Divine—The Alterity that I Am.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-37584-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004375840 DOI