| Description |
xiii, 386 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Interrogating ethics / James Hatley -- Ethics in question -- "Vision, mirror and expression : the genesis of the ethical body in Merleau-Ponty's later works" / Alia l-Saji -- "The contingency of goodness" / Mary C. Rawlinson -- A critical exchange -- Part A: "Responsivity of the body : traces of the other in Merleau-Ponty's theory of body and flesh" / Bernhard Waldenfels -- Part B: "Moral blind spots and ethical appeals : a response to Bernhard Waldenfels" / Diane Perpich -- The phenomenology of the body as an ethical initiative -- "The boundaries of a victim-life" / Janice McLane -- "Echoes of the flesh : on the ethical significance of bodily remembrance" / Carolin Woolson -- "The roots of agency : Merleau-Ponty, flesh and foucault" / David Brubaker -- "Facing Levinas : Merleau-Ponty's physiognomic ethics" / Glen A. Mazis -- The phenomenology of language as an ethical initiative -- "Language as the flesh of being : Merleau-Ponty and Kristeva" / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei -- "Ethical language : Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein on mediated conflict" / Susan Michele O'Shaughnessy -- Critical exchange -- Part A: "Limits of the flesh : the role of reflection in David Abram's eco-phenomenology" / Ted Toadvine -- Part B: "Between the body and the breathing earth : a reply to Ted Toadvine" / David Abram -- Codicil : bodily verges -- "The mouth : a new opening for philosophy" / David Wood -- "Specters of Merleau-Ponty" / Hugh J. Silverman |
| Summary |
"These essays focus on our embodied responsiveness to others, particularly as this is illuminated in the thought of French phenomenologist and psychologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Contributors discuss aesthetics, political theory, developmental and depth psychology, interfaith relations, literary criticism, feminist and ecological critique, phenomenological description and hermeneutical analysis"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
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Ethics.
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| Author |
Hatley, James, 1949-
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McLane, Janice, 1954-
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Diehm, Christian, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2006006276 |
| ISBN |
0820703834 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780820703824 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0820703826 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780820703831 paperback alkaline paper |
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