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Author Beith, Don, author

Title The birth of sense : generative passivity in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy / Don Beith
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2018

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Series Series in Continental thought ; Number 52
Series in Continental thought ; no. 52.
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: In the Shadow of Philosophy; 1: Consciousness and Animality; 2: The Passivity of Life; 3: The Passivity of Second Nature; 4: The Intercorporeal Institution of Agency; Conclusion: The Hidden Nature of Passivity; Notes; References; Index
Summary In The Birth of Sense, Don Beith proposes a new concept of generative passivity, the idea that our organic, psychological, and social activities take time to develop into sense. More than being a limit, passivity marks out the way in which organisms, persons, and interbodily systems take time in order to manifest a coherent sense
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
SUBJECT Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 fast
(FrPBN)12013163 Merleau-Ponty, Jacques, 1916-2002 (FrPBN)12042895 -- Critique et interpretation. ram
Subject PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology
Passivite (psychologie)
Passions (philosophie)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821446263
0821446266