Merleau-Ponty's critique of reason /
Critique of reason
by Thomas Langan.
- xii, 194 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface -- Abbreviations -- The transcendental viewpoint -- The critique of reason: pure or otherwise -- A new notion of synthesis -- 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 -- Analytica-dialectica -- Je suis donc je pense -- Formal thought lives off intuitive thought -- Expression: the cogito's self-discovery -- Practica -- The problem of finite freedom -- The human nature of the world's demands -- Realizing humanity -- 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 -- Toward the rehabilitation of reason -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"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.