Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty

Informationen zum Autor Taylor Carman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. Mark B. N. Hansen is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University. Klappentext The new essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. Zusammenfassung Merleau-Ponty was described by Paul Ricoeur as 'the greatest of the French phenomenologists'. The essays in this volume examine the full scope of his philosophy! from his abiding concern with the nature of perception and the bodily constitution of intentionality to his reflections on science! nature! art! history! and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Taylor Carman and Mark B. N. Hansen; 1. Merleau-Ponty and the epistemological picture Charles Taylor; 2. Sensation, judgment, and the phenomenal mind Taylor Carman; 3. Seeing things in Merleau-Ponty Sean Dorrance Kelly; 4. Motives, reasons and causes Mark A. Wrathall; 5. Merleau-Ponty and recent cognitive science Hubert L. Dreyfus; 6. The silent, limping body of philosophy Richard Shusterman; 7. Merleau-Ponty and the touch of Malebranche Judith Butler; 8. A phenomenology of life Renaud Barbaras; 9. The embryology of the (in)visible Mark B. N. Hansen; 10. Merleau-Ponty's existential conception of science Joseph Rouse; 11. Between philosophy and art Jonathan Gilmore; 12. Understanding the engaged philosopher Lydia Goehr; 13. Thinking politics Claude Lefort.

Product details

• Authors: Professor Taylor Hansen Carman, Taylor Hansen Carman
• Assisted by: Taylor Carman (Editor), Mark B. N. Hansen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2004
• EAN: 9780521809894
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80989-4
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philos; Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Phenomenology and Existentialism