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1 online resource (xxxiii, 204 pages) |
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Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy |
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Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy.
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| Contents |
Preface: Re-reading Phenomenology of Perception -- Introduction: Flight from Phenomenology? -- 1. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Soliloquizing Angel" -- 2. Embodiment and Incarnation -- 3. Totality and Embodiment -- 4. Elements of an Incarnational Marxism -- 5. Contemporary Heroism -- Conclusion: Heroic Sublimation |
| Summary |
"Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception - a canonical text of twentieth-century philosophy - concludes with an appeal to 'heroism' by citing a series of enigmatic sentences drawn from Saint-Exupe;ry's Pilote de guerre. Surprisingly, however, these lines are antithetical to the philosophical thrust of Merleau-Ponty's project. This book aims to explain this situation. Foregrounding liminal themes in Merleau-Ponty's thought that have been largely overlooked - e.g., sacrifice, death, myth, faith - and showing how these themes support Merleau-Ponty's reinterpretation of Husserlian phenomenology, Smyth shows that Merleau-Ponty's appeal to 'heroism' represents an extra-philosophical appeal to a historical purposiveness as a universal feature of human nature, and that Merleau-Ponty makes this appeal in virtue of his recognition of the intrinsic methodological limitations of philosophy as a theoretical endeavor. The book thus recovers the 'militant' dimension of Merleau-Ponty's thought. This sheds considerable new light on his work. It does so in a way that challenges some of the basic parameters of existing Merleau-Ponty scholarship by illuminating the intrinsic normativity of his existential phenomenology, and its epistemic reliance on forms of non-reason such as faith and myth."-- Provided by publisher |
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"An original re-reading of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology by way of a critical investigation of its crucial yet enigmatic references to 'heroism'"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961. |
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 14.03.1908-03.05.1961. Phénoménologie de la perception. |
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Phenomenology.
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Heroes
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Courage.
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phenomenology.
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heroes.
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Western philosophy, from c 1900.
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Phenomenology & Existentialism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Phenomenology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Criticism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Critical Theory.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Existentialism.
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Courage.
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Heroes.
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Phenomenology.
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Phänomenologie
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Marxismus
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Heroismus
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781780937878 |
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1780937873 |
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1472548078 |
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9781472548078 |
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