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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Merleau-Ponty"”.
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Merleau-Ponty and the dialectic of perception
… I argue that the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty offers a detailed and sustained critique of the program implicit in every phase of this dialectic: each type of theory, in its turn, attempts to explain the event of perception in terms of an ontological commitment that is essentially …
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Intencionalidade e dialética na fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty
… starts with Renaud Barbaras' critique of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological project, specifically in relation to the French philosopher's attempt to overcome the problem of the invulnerability of consciousness in relation to the lived world. By analysing Barbaras' critique and his …
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Sensation Rebuilt: Carnal Ontology in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty
… to embodiment presented by Levinas and Merleau-Ponty cannot provide an adequate account of bodily identity because their methodological commitments forbid them from admitting the central role that sensation plays in the constitution of experience. This neglect is symptomatic of their …
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Disturbing rhythms: James, Merleau-Ponty, music, and self-transformation
… and the French phenomenologist Maurice-Merleau-Ponty was no exception. However, this paper will show that both Merleau-Ponty’s early phenomenology and his late ontology (in conversation with James’ earlier analysis) offer significant theoretical tools with which to explore such states …
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The Problem of Nature in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
<p>In my dissertation, I show that Merleau-Ponty’s idea of nature yields a double meaning: nature as ensemble of genetic and productive processes that are attainable in experience (phenomenal nature) and nature as that which enables this experience (transcendental nature). My thesis is that the two …
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The Problem of Guilt: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Glissant
… the thinking of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Frantz Fanon, and Édouard Glissant. More specifically, I consider guilt and moral responsibility, using archival research to trace the unusual lineage of writing on moral responsibility that has lain unexamined in their work, and to …
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Samkennd og samskipti: Turing-prófið í ljósi tungumálagreiningar Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… með vísan í fyrirbærafræðilega greiningu Maurice Merleau-Ponty á tungumálinu í bókinni Prósi heimsins. Tungumálinu er fundinn grundvöllur í samkennd, og tilraun er gerð til þess að yfirfæra þessa samkennd á form sem getur betur lýst þeim samskiptum sem eiga sér ekki stað augliti til auglitis …
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Phenomenology and Blindness: Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and an Alternative Metaphysical Vision
… <p>In my project, I examine the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to determine if it is possible to philosophize from a non-ocularcentric perspective. As part of my project, I examine a trend in continental thought towards what Martin Jay calls "anti-ocularcentrism"; while I find …
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis
… existential phenomenology. In particular, this Merleau-Pontean existential phenomenological reading enhances understanding of the implicit theory of human communication and communication ethics informing McLuhan’s Media Ecology criticism. Once elucidated, McLuhan’s theoretical assumptions, aims …
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Within the carnal: re-reading Merleau-Ponty through the language of drawing
… present visual art as a paradigm for philosophy, Merleau-Ponty investigated the creative processes of artists whose work corresponded closely with his philosophical ideas. His essays on art are widely valued for emphasising process over product, and for challenging the primacy of the written word …
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The concept of the lived world : an introduction to the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
… in this thesis is not to interpret or translate Merleau-Ponty's expressions but rather to re-create his philosophy, avoiding as far as possible the actual expressions he used, not because we find any fault with them but because we wish to re-create the conditions under which they can appear in …
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A Phenomenological Investigation of Sport and Fandom Through Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… in the world. Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty are used to understand the conventions of play that manifest in sport, leading not only to the co-creation of the game experience due to the intertwining of spectators and players but also to the interplay of temporal realms that leads …
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A phenomenological account of Merleau-Ponty's notion of style : from embodiment to flesh
… This thesis is an investigation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of style via the individual, artwork, and the world. It aims to show that subject-object, self-other, and perceiver-perceived are not contrary, but are reverses of one another each requiring the other for meaningful …
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Tactility and modernity: the sense of touch in D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… namely, D. H. Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and an artistic circle centering around Alfred Stieglitz. In the tradition of Western culture, touch is often regarded as the “lowest” sense while vision is privileged as the “intellectual sense.” Through a comparative analysis of …
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The structure of linguistic behaviour : using evidence from aphasiology to corroborate and develop Merleau-Ponty's theory of language and intersubjectivity
… of Goldstein's patient, Schneider, the case Merleau-Ponty described in so many of his arguments, particularly those in the chapter of the Phenomenology of Perception entitled "The spatiality of one's own Body and Motility". It seemed to me that I could analyse the speech syndromes Luria …
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On Whether Or Not Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Lived Body Experience Can Enrich St. Thomas Aquinas's Integral Anthropology
I argue that Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of lived body experience can be used to enrich Aquinas's integral anthropology. In Chapter One I lay out the possibilities of such an enrichment by examining contemporary philosophers of mind who draw on Aquinas and Merleau-Ponty in strikingly similar …
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The veil of the flesh : a phenomenological reading of Gregory of Nyssa.
… with three French phenomenologists—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Henry, and Jean-Louis Chrétien—I explore divine imaging not as an aspect of human creatureliness, but rather as that which constitutes human creatureliness itself. Drawing upon these sources, I describe the dynamic character of …
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A Phenomenology of Incarnate Experience
… innovations achieved by French phenomenologists Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Michel Henry, and Jean-Luc Marion allow for the study of both the body and the religious to be furthered. Given that the field of French phenomenology is vast, it is essential that we limit our study to but a few …
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Identitiy and Belonging: Urban Nature and adolescent development in the City of Cape Town
… process of reflexivity. The phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty (1962, 1968) provided an alternative to dualistic views of the human-nature relationship. Authors who have worked with Merleau-Ponty&amp;acirc;s theories helped me clarify my understanding of the need to retrieve nature and …
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