Phenomenology, institution, and history
Subtitle: writings after Merleau-Ponty II
By: Stephen H. Watson.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781847065315
Subjects: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, -- 1908-1961
Description: Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely known for his emphasis on embodied perceptual experience. This emphasis initially relied heavily on the positive results of Gestalt psychology in addressing issues in philosophical psychology and philosophy of mind from a phenomenological standpoint. However, far less work has been done in addressing his evolving conception of how such an account influenced more general philosophical issues in epistemology, accounts of rationality, or its status of theoretical discourse. Developing the work he has already done in In the Shadow of Phenomenology to address this gap in the literature, Stephen H. Watson further examines the responses to Merleau-Ponty's contributions to these issues. This book emphasises the historical and intersubjective underpinnings of Merleau-Ponty's late accounts, in relation to rationality, institution and community, and examines its implications
Table of contents: title: From the ethics of ambiguity to the dialectics of virtue : Merleau-Ponty in the "ruins of the spirit"; title: Why phenomenology? : the long farewell to subject-centered rationality; title: Theoretical crisis, dialogue, and the stoicism of the transcendental singular; title: The question of community : an interpretation of Lefort; title: Beyond the antinomies of expression : writing after Merleau-Ponty.