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Merleau-Ponty and Derrida : intertwining embodiment and alterity / Jack Reynolds.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Series in Continental thoughtPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xix, 233 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0821415921
  • 9780821415924
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 22
LOC classification:
  • B2430.M3764 R49 2004
Contents:
1. Merleau-Ponty, the body-subject, and the disciplining of reflection -- 2. The deconstruction of oppositions : speech-writing, but why not mind-body? -- 3. The later philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and the metaphysics of presence -- 4. Habituality and undecidability : a comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on the decision -- 5. Solipsisim and the master-slave dialectic : an Onto-ethical dissonance between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty -- 6. Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and the alterity of the other -- 7. The other of Derridean deconstruction : Levinas, phenomemology, and the problem of responsibility -- 8. Possible and impossible, self and other, and the reversibility of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida.
Review: "While there have been many essays devoted to comparing the work of Maruice Merleau-Ponty with that of Jacques Derrida, there has been no sustained book-length treatment of these two French philosophers. Additionally, many of the essays presuppose an oppositional relationship between them, and between phenomonology and deconstruction more generally." "Jack Reynolds systematically explores their relationship by analyzing each philosopher in terms of two important and related issues - embodiment and alterity. Focusing on areas with which they are not commonly associated (e.g., Derrida on the body and Merleau-Ponty on alterity), he makes clear that their work cannot be adequately characterized in a strictly oppositional way."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.

1. Merleau-Ponty, the body-subject, and the disciplining of reflection -- 2. The deconstruction of oppositions : speech-writing, but why not mind-body? -- 3. The later philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and the metaphysics of presence -- 4. Habituality and undecidability : a comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on the decision -- 5. Solipsisim and the master-slave dialectic : an Onto-ethical dissonance between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty -- 6. Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and the alterity of the other -- 7. The other of Derridean deconstruction : Levinas, phenomemology, and the problem of responsibility -- 8. Possible and impossible, self and other, and the reversibility of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida.

"While there have been many essays devoted to comparing the work of Maruice Merleau-Ponty with that of Jacques Derrida, there has been no sustained book-length treatment of these two French philosophers. Additionally, many of the essays presuppose an oppositional relationship between them, and between phenomonology and deconstruction more generally." "Jack Reynolds systematically explores their relationship by analyzing each philosopher in terms of two important and related issues - embodiment and alterity. Focusing on areas with which they are not commonly associated (e.g., Derrida on the body and Merleau-Ponty on alterity), he makes clear that their work cannot be adequately characterized in a strictly oppositional way."--BOOK JACKET.

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