Langan, Thomas,

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.

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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961


Philosophy.
Reason.

B4230.M38 / L3

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