Merleau-Ponty's critique of reason / by Thomas Langan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1966Copyright date: ©1966Description: xii, 194 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Other title:
  • Critique of reason
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Merleau-Ponty's critique of reason.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 194 23
LOC classification:
  • B4230.M38 L3
Contents:
Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The transcendental viewpoint -- The critique of reason: pure or otherwise -- A new notion of synthesis -- 2. Incarnated intentionality: the new transcendental aesthetic -- The problem of truth -- Figure, field, and the world -- The characteristics of incarnated intentionality -- The coexistence of egos in an intersubjective world -- 3. Analytica-dialectica -- Je suis donc je pense -- Formal thought lives off intuitive thought -- Expression: the cogito's self-discovery -- 4. Practica -- The problem of finite freedom -- The human nature of the world's demands -- Realizing humanity -- 5. Poetica: a new Montaigne -- Being and expression -- The most basic expression: the gesture -- Toward a phenomenology of language -- Language as peculiar world: criteria for its truth -- Recuperation of the world and the classical figures -- 6. Toward the rehabilitation of reason -- Index.
Summary: "This study reviews the entire course of Merleau-Ponty's thought - his explorations of psychology, politics, and the arts - in terms of the fundamental convictions that give it sense and importance and analyzes the difficulties that face such a critical philosophy."--Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The transcendental viewpoint -- The critique of reason: pure or otherwise -- A new notion of synthesis -- 2. Incarnated intentionality: the new transcendental aesthetic -- The problem of truth -- Figure, field, and the world -- The characteristics of incarnated intentionality -- The coexistence of egos in an intersubjective world -- 3. Analytica-dialectica -- Je suis donc je pense -- Formal thought lives off intuitive thought -- Expression: the cogito's self-discovery -- 4. Practica -- The problem of finite freedom -- The human nature of the world's demands -- Realizing humanity -- 5. Poetica: a new Montaigne -- Being and expression -- The most basic expression: the gesture -- Toward a phenomenology of language -- Language as peculiar world: criteria for its truth -- Recuperation of the world and the classical figures -- 6. Toward the rehabilitation of reason -- Index.

"This study reviews the entire course of Merleau-Ponty's thought - his explorations of psychology, politics, and the arts - in terms of the fundamental convictions that give it sense and importance and analyzes the difficulties that face such a critical philosophy."--Book jacket.

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