Merleau-Ponty and Derrida
Subtitle: intertwining embodiment and alterity
By: Jack Reynolds.
Series: Series in Continental thought
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, -- 1908-1961; Derrida, Jacques
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Embodiment; title: Merleau-Ponty, the body-subject, and the disciplining of reflection; title: The deconstruction of oppositions: speech-writing, but why not mind-body?; title: The later philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and the metaphysics of presence; title: Habituality and undecidability: a comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on the decision; title: II: The other; title: Solipsism and the master-slave dialectic: on onto-ethical dissonance between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty; title: Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas, and the alterity of the other; title: The other of Derridean deconstruction: Lévinas, phenomenology, and the problem of responsibility; title: Possible and impossible, self and other, and the reversibility of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida.