Interrogating ethics
Subtitle: embodying the good in Merleau-Ponty
By: edited by James Hatley, Janice McLane & Christian Diehm.
Contributors: Hatley, James, 1949-; McLane, Janice, 1954-; Diehm, Christian, 1969-
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780820703824; 9780820703831
Subjects: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, -- 1908-1961; Ethics
Description: "These essays focus on our embodied responsiveness to others, particularly as this is illuminated in the thought of French phenomenologist and psychologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Contributors discuss aesthetics, political theory, developmental and depth psychology, interfaith relations, literary criticism, feminist and ecological critique, phenomenological description and hermeneutical analysis"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Interrogating ethics / James Hatley; title: Ethics in question; title: Vision, mirror and expression : the genesis of the ethical body in Merleau-Ponty's later works / Alia l-Saji; title: The contingency of goodness / Mary C. Rawlinson; title: A critical exchange I; title: Part A: Responsivity of the body : traces of the other in Merleau-Ponty's theory of body and flesh / Bernhard Waldenfels; title: Part B: Moral blind spots and ethical appeals : a response to Bernhard Waldenfels / Diane Perpich; title: The phenomenology of the body as an ethical initiative; title: The boundaries of a victim-life / Janice McLane; title: Echoes of the flesh : on the ethical significance of bodily remembrance / Carolin Woolson; title: The roots of agency : Merleau-Ponty, flesh and Foucault / David Brubaker; title: Facing Levinas : Merleau-Ponty's physiognomic ethics / Glen A. Mazis; title: The phenomenology of language as an ethical initiative; title: Language as the flesh of being : Merleau-Ponty and Kristeva / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei; title: Ethical language : Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein on mediated conflict / Susan Michele O'Shaughnessy; title: Critical exchange II; title: Part A: Limits of the flesh : the role of reflection in David Abram's eco-phenomenology / Ted Toadvine; title: Part B: Between the body and the breathing earth : a reply to Ted Toadvine / David Abram; title: Codicil : bodily verges; title: The mouth : a new opening for philosophy / David Wood; title: Specters of Merleau-Ponty / Hugh J. Silverman.