Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity (eBook)
XVI, 313 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-52744-8 (ISBN)
Anya Daly completed a double-badged doctorate from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and l'Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, in December 2012. Her thesis, 'The problem of the Other in the work of Merleau-Ponty: From Epistemology to Ethics' explicated Merleau-Ponty's implicit ethics from his accounts of embodiment, primordial percipience and his non-dual ontology.
Anya Daly spent five years in France researching and teaching across various disciplines in undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs, returning to Australia in 2010. Since then she has been based in Melbourne where she has taught on a number of the undergraduate programs in the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne. Her research continues to be focused on the nexus phenomenology, neuroscience and psychology, specifically with regard to perception, destructiveness and ethical failure. Her additional research interests include creativity, aesthetics, the philosophy of psychiatry and Buddhist philosophy.
This book draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to explicate Merleau-Ponty's unwritten ethics. Daly contends that though Merleau-Ponty never developed an ethics per se, there is significant textual evidence that clearly indicates he had the intention to do so. This book highlights the explicit references to ethics that he offers and proposes that these, allied to his ontological commitments, provide the basis for the development of an ethics. In this work Daly shows how Merleau-Ponty's relational ontology, in which the interdependence of self, other and world is affirmed, offers an entirely new approach to ethics. In contrast to the 'top-down' ethics of norms, obligations and prescriptions, Daly maintains that Merleau-Ponty's ethics is a 'bottom-up' ethics which depends on direct insight into our own intersubjective natures, the 'I' within the 'we' and the 'we' within the 'I'; insight into the real nature of our relation to others and the particularities of the given situation. Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity is an important contribution to the scholarship on the later Merleau-Ponty which will be of interest to graduate students and scholars. Daly offers informed readings of Merleau-Ponty's texts and the overall approach is both scholarly and innovative.
Anya Daly completed a double-badged doctorate from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and l’Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, in December 2012. Her thesis, ‘The problem of the Other in the work of Merleau-Ponty: From Epistemology to Ethics’ explicated Merleau-Ponty’s implicit ethics from his accounts of embodiment, primordial percipience and his non-dual ontology.Anya Daly spent five years in France researching and teaching across various disciplines in undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs, returning to Australia in 2010. Since then she has been based in Melbourne where she has taught on a number of the undergraduate programs in the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne. Her research continues to be focused on the nexus phenomenology, neuroscience and psychology, specifically with regard to perception, destructiveness and ethical failure. Her additional research interests include creativity, aesthetics, the philosophy of psychiatry and Buddhist philosophy.
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: Alterity - The Trace of the Other
The Dilemma of Plurality
The argument from analogy
The uncertain apprehension of oneself
More certain of others: The body
More certain of others : Artefacts and Art
Merleau-Ponty and ‘Style’
More certain of others : Language
Conclusion: From Trace to Flesh
CHAPTER TWO: Alterity - The Reversibility Thesis and the Visible
What is the Reversibility Thesis?
Reversibility within the body’s sensibilities
Reversibility as it relates to external objects and world
The Visible
Vision and Movement
Reversibility and the Other
The body of the Other
The Self-Other distinction
Conclusion: The Flesh of the Visible
CHAPTER THREE: Alterity – The Reversibility Thesis and the Invisible
The Invisible: Reflection, Language, Expression and Culture
The Reversibility of Reflection and Language
The Reversibility of Language and the World
Autochthonous Organization: The Logos of the World and Language
The Reversibility of Linguistic Subjects
Speech
Writing and Art – truth and style
Sartre’s Aesthetic Dualism
Malraux’s Aesthetic Dualism
Merleau-Ponty’s Style
Critique of Malraux’s Style
Merleau-Ponty’s Historicity: Historical alterity
The ‘Ultimate Truth’ – the reversibility of the Visible and the Invisible
Scientistic perversions versus artistic vision
Depth, Desire and Flesh
Conclusion: Chiasms within chiasms
CHAPTER FOUR: Objections to the Reversibility Thesis
Objections to the Reversibility Thesis I : Lefort
The asymmetry between the infant and the adult
The non-problem of asymmetry between subjects
The question of irreducibility – is a third term needed?
Lefort’s irreversibles and Merleau-Ponty’s ‘wild being’
Merleau-Ponty privileges vision over touch
Objections to the Reversibility Thesis II : Levinas
The compatibility of ontology and alterity
Epistemology beyond reflection
Sensation and Sentiment
Irreducibility
Conclusion: Irreducible alterities
CHAPTER FIVE: Intersubjectivity – Phenomenological, Psychological and Neuroscientific Intersections Merleau-Ponty’s ambivalent regard for science
The Naturalist Turn in Phenomenology
The world out there vs the interworld
The embodied self: body schema and body image
Ownership and Agency
Self and Other: Theories of Mind and mirror neurons
Expressive subjects
Theory of Mind
The Interaction Theory of Social Cognition
Intersubjectivity
The Affective GPS
Conclusion: Beyond representationalist accounts of intersubjectivity
CHAPTER SIX: Primary Intersubjectivity: Affective Reversibility, Empathy and the Primordial ‘We’
Empathy and its vicissitudes
Merleau-Ponty and empathy
Zahavi on Empathy and Intersubjectivity
Primary Intersubjectivity: affective reversibility and the ‘primordial we’
Secondary Intersubjectivity and empathy
Tertiary intersubjectivity: empathy as ethical touchstone
Conclusion: an architectonic of empathy
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Social Matrix - Primary Empathy as the Ground of Ethics
Empathy and subjectivity
Scheler and fellow-feeling
Objections to the ‘empathy account of ethics’
Ethical failure and disembodiment
Conclusion: The ‘great bond’ versus the ‘inhuman gaze’.
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Ethical Interworld
The Ethical Interworld
Rethinking facts and values
The amoralist’s challenge
Insight and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity
Conclusion: The Ethics of Intersubjectivity
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.5.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XVI, 313 p. |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Schlagworte | Embodiment • Epistemology • ethics • Merleau-Ponty • Ontology • primordial percipience • reversibility • The Other |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-52744-7 / 1137527447 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-52744-8 / 9781137527448 |
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