Tricks of time
Subtitle: Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur in search of time, self and meaning
By: Mark S. Muldoon
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, -- 1908-1961; Bergson, Henri, -- 1859-1941; Ricœur, Paul; Time -- Philosophy; Self; Meaning (Philosophy)
Description: "Invites readers into discussions of time, self and meaning under the auspices of three thinkers: Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur. The work of each thinker is highlighted to show how each 'disrupts' 'clock time,' drawing out and reclaiming aspects of our humanity neglected in mere chronology"--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The existential preamble; title: The general philosophical problem; title: The present study; title: Historical background; title: Masters of disruption; title: Structure of presentation; title: The aporias of temporality; title: The ordinary sense of time and self; title: Discord and concord in the study of time; title: The ultimate aporia of time; title: Bergson and time as duration; title: Introduction; title: The rediscovery of insensity; title: La durée réelle; title: The rhythms of duration; title: The profound self; title: The problem of language; title: The social self and the necessity of storytelling; title: Meaning; title: Merleau-Ponty and temporality; title: Merleau-Ponty and Bergson; title: Merleau-Ponty and Husserlian philosophy; title: The structure of behavior; title: Phenomenology of perception; title: Freedom; title: Language, meaning, and the unfinished self in phenomenology of perception; title: The narrative tendency in phenomenology of perception and beyond; title: The visible and the invisible; title: The historical present and narrative identity; title: Linking time and narrative; title: Formal aspects of narrative composition; title: Historical time; title: Fictional narrative; title: Historical consciousness; title: Narrative identity; title: Life and meaning; title: The inscrutability of time; title: Creative time; title: Time and self; title: Bergson and Ricoeur; title: The temporality of Merleau-Ponty and the human time of Ricoeur; title: Epilogue: Creative time