Interrogating ethics embodying the good in Merleau-Ponty

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 crit...

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Otros Autores: Hatley, James, 1949- (-), McLane, Janice, 1954-, Diehm, Christian, 1969-
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) : Duquesne University Press 2006
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Acceso en línea:Sumario
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 I
  • 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 II
  • 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