Marratto The Intercorporeal Self

Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4233-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought

An original interpretation of Merleau-Ponty on subjectivity, drawing from and challenging both the continental and analytic traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marratto, Scott L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Situation and the Embodied Mind

I. Mind, Self, World

Representation
Behavior
Situated Cognition

II. Perception

Sensation
Spatiality

III. Situated Subjectivity

2. Making Space

I. Subjectivity, Sensation, and Depth

Affordance Depth
Spectral Depth
Spatial ‘Levels’
Time, Space, and Sensation
The Depth of the Past

II. Learning

3. Subjectivity and the ‘Style’ of the World

I. The ‘Subject’ and the ‘World’ of Situated Cognition

Sensorimotor Laws
Sensorimotor Subjectivity
Ecological Laws
Ecological Subjectivity

II. Perception and Subjectivity beyond Metaphysics

4. Auto-affection and Alterity

I. Presence

The ‘Privilege’ of the Present
Auto-affection

II. The Deconstruction of Presence

Derrida’s Appraisal of Husserl’s Phenomenology
Derrida on the Lived Body (‘Leib’; ‘le corps propre’)
Derrida’s Deconstruction of ‘Intercorporeity’

III. Auto-hetero-affection in Merleau-Ponty

Intercorporeity and Intersubjectivity
Body Schema
Auto-hetero-affection as the Advent of the Intercorporeal Body

5. Ipseity and Language

I. Language and Gesture

The Tacit Cogito
Perceptual Meaning and Natural Expression
The Paradox of Expression
Institution

II. Diacritical Intercorporeity

III. Expression and Subjectivity

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Scott L. Marratto is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Michigan Technological University and the coauthor (with Lawrence E. Schmidt) of The End of Ethics in a Technological Society.