Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being : At the Limits of Phenomenology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morin, Marie-Eve.

Series:

New Perspectives in Ontology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Marie-Eve Morin proposes a reinterpretation of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and Nancy from the perspective of realist and object-oriented tendencies in contemporary philosophy. She shows how they avoid the danger, inherent in the phenomenological approach, of reducing being to sense.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Speculative Realist Challenge and the Limits of Phenomenology

1. The context: The speculative realist challenge

2. The limits of phenomenology: Being and sense

3. Merleau-Ponty and Nancy: Influence and resonances

4. Chapter breakdown

Part I – Body

1 Merleau-Ponty, Descartes and the Unreflected Life of the

1. Reading Descartes: The relation between reflection and the unreflected

2. Sensing and self-sensing body of the Phenomenology of Perception

3. The problem of the Phenomenology of Perception: Tacit versus operative cogito

2 Nancy, Descartes, the Exposition of Bodies and the Extension of the Soul

1. Nancy’s reading of Descartes: The unum quid against the modern subject

2. Nancy’s bodies: Skin, sense, touch

3 Divergences: Unity versus Dislocation

1. Synthesis of the body schema or partes extra partes?

2. Synaesthesia or dislocation of the senses? Self-touching or touching the outside?

Part II – Thing

4 Things in the Phenomenology of Perception: The Paradox of an In-Itself-for-Us

1. The order of the phenomena: Between being and appearance

2. Answering the accusation of correlationism

3. The limit of the answer in the Phenomenology and the move to ontology

5 Things after the Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty’s Cautious Anthropomorphism Generated by AI.

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Other Format:

Print version: Morin, Marie-Eve Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being

ISBN:

9781399519007

139951900X

9781474492447

1474492444

OCLC:

1336005925