- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Aristotle <i>in</i> Phenomenology
- Descartes’ Notion of the Mind–Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions
- Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology
- Phenomenology and German Idealism
- Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl
- Husserl’s Early Period: Juvenilia and the <i>Logical Investigations</i>
- Husserl’s Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics
- Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl’s Late Phenomenology
- Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions
- Edith Stein’s Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche, and Spirit
- The Early Heidegger’s Phenomenology
- The Middle Heidegger’s Phenomenological Metaphysics
- Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger
- Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency
- Sartre’s Transcendental Phenomenology
- The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back
- Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist
- Science in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy
- Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description
- Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work
- Jan Patočka’s Philosophical Legacy
- An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights Supporting Derridean Deconstruction
- When Alterity Becomes Proximity: Levinas’s Path
- Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought
- Phenomenological Methodology
- Subjectivity: From Husserl to his Followers (and Back Again)
- The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas
- Embodiment and Bodily Becoming
- From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces
- Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World
- Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles
- Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge
- Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty on the World of Experience
- Imagination De-Naturalized: Phantasy, the Imaginary, and Imaginative Ontology
- Value, Freedom, Responsibility: Central Themes in Phenomenological Ethics
- Historicity and the Hermeneutic Predicament: From Yorck to Derrida
- Intersubjectivity, Sociality, Community: The Contribution of the Early Phenomenologists
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Access to a large number of unpublished manuscripts allows us to follow the continuity of Merleau-Ponty’s thought from his first to his last writings, to uncover its double critical constitution, anti-Cartesian and anti-Sartrean, and to understand the status of this philosophy of the flesh as it establishes itself as ontology. This philosophy is geared toward a never-abandoned methodological challenge to grasp humanity first as another manner of being a body, the challenge of thinking a corporeity which is always already, in the very principle of its animation, intercorporeity. Through his continual pursuit of a phenomenology of perception, its insistence on the motifs of depth, the inexhaustible, the invisible, and incompletion, Merleau-Ponty’s carnal ontology proceeds in the discovery of the common negativity of human beings and the world, of myself and others, which affects its conception of being.
Keywords: Merleau-Ponty, flesh, ontology, Descartes, Sartre, negativity, body schema, intercorporeity
Emmanuel de Saint Aubert , former student at the École Normale Supérieure, professor of philosophy and mathematics, is research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Husserl Archives in Paris). He also educates professionals in the areas of troubled childhood and adolescence. His research bears most particularly on the work of Merleau-Ponty, rereading him through the lens of an overall knowledge of numerous unpublished writings. He published Être et chair I (2013), devoted to the influence of neurology, developmental psychology, and psychoanalysis on the elaboration of Merleau-Ponty’s concept of Flesh.
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- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Aristotle <i>in</i> Phenomenology
- Descartes’ Notion of the Mind–Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions
- Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology
- Phenomenology and German Idealism
- Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl
- Husserl’s Early Period: Juvenilia and the <i>Logical Investigations</i>
- Husserl’s Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics
- Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl’s Late Phenomenology
- Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions
- Edith Stein’s Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche, and Spirit
- The Early Heidegger’s Phenomenology
- The Middle Heidegger’s Phenomenological Metaphysics
- Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger
- Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency
- Sartre’s Transcendental Phenomenology
- The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back
- Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist
- Science in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy
- Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description
- Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work
- Jan Patočka’s Philosophical Legacy
- An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights Supporting Derridean Deconstruction
- When Alterity Becomes Proximity: Levinas’s Path
- Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought
- Phenomenological Methodology
- Subjectivity: From Husserl to his Followers (and Back Again)
- The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas
- Embodiment and Bodily Becoming
- From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces
- Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World
- Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles
- Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge
- Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty on the World of Experience
- Imagination De-Naturalized: Phantasy, the Imaginary, and Imaginative Ontology
- Value, Freedom, Responsibility: Central Themes in Phenomenological Ethics
- Historicity and the Hermeneutic Predicament: From Yorck to Derrida
- Intersubjectivity, Sociality, Community: The Contribution of the Early Phenomenologists
- Index
