Merleau-Ponty’s Developmental Ontology / David Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, David, 1967- author.

Series:

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Philosophy of nature.

Philosophy, Modern.

Ontology--History--20th century.

Ontology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Winner of the 2020 Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology shows how the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from its very beginnings, seeks to find sense or meaning within nature, and how this quest calls for and develops into a radically new ontology. David Morris first gives an illuminating.

Contents:

Introduction: Sense, development, and the phenomenology of nature

Merleau-Ponty and the ontology of sense

Sense and the problem of nature in the structure of behaviour

Sense and the ontology of temporality in phenomenology of perception

Phenomenology of nature and life as phenomenal field: embryology and a methodology for sense

The negative-in-being (I): immunology and the place of sense

The negative-in-being (II): genetics and the temporality of sense

Developmental ontology: deep temporality and sense in nature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8101-3794-1

OCLC:

1050788884