Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9561-7
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

This innovative interpretation of central themes in Merleau-Ponty offers detailed teatment of texts and themes that are often ignored and lays new emphasis on Merleau-Ponty's understanding of language, providing a fresh reading of this key figur.

Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology reconstructs Merleau-Ponty’s treatment of the problem of ideal objects. Besmer describes Merleau-Ponty’s early attempt to found ideal objects on pre-linguistic, perceptual experience and shows that Merleau-Ponty ultimately came to see the shortcomings of this initial view. An examination of often ignored writings from the middle-period of Merleau-Ponty’s career allows Besmer to piece together Merleau-Ponty’s mature view of ideal objects, one that does not overlook the contributions of perception but emphasizes the historical and cultural nature of ideal objects and one’s experience of them. Merleau-Ponty’s final view of ideal objects takes ideal meanings in language as paradigmatic and understands ideal objects as embedded in cultural practices and institutions.

Kirk Besmer’s book is the first ever to be devoted to the problem of ideal objects in Merleau-Ponty’s thought. Showing for the first time the crucial conceptual developments and revisions internal to Merleau-Ponty’s thought, Besmer’s book will change the way that Merleau-Ponty is read.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Besmer, Kirk M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Husserl and the Problem of Ideal Objects
2. The Problem of Ideal Objects in the Phenomenology of Perception

3. From Perception to Language: Relocating the Primordial
4. Language and Expression in the Middle Period
5. Intersubjectivity and the Intermonde
6. Ideal Objects in the Late Period

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Kirk M. Besmer teaches Philosophy at Gonzaga University, Washington, USA. He has previously published articles on phenomenology in Phenomenology and Cognitive Science and American Catholic Philosophic Quarterly.