The Philosophy of Ontological Lateness

Merleau-Ponty and the Tasks of Thinking

Keith Whitmoyer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-00397-2 (ISBN)

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Addressing Merleau-Ponty’s work Phenomenology of Perception, in dialogue with The Visible and the Invisible, his lectures at the Collège de France, and his reading of Proust, this book argues that at play in his thought is a philosophy of “ontological lateness”. This describes the manner in which philosophical reflection is fated to lag behind its objects; therefore an absolute grasp on being remains beyond its reach.

Merleau-Ponty articulates this philosophy against the backdrop of what he calls “cruel thought”, a style of reflecting that seeks resolution by limiting, circumscribing, and arresting its object. By contrast, the philosophy of ontological lateness seeks no such finality—no apocalypsis or unveiling—but is characterized by its ability to accept the veiling of being and its own constitutive lack of punctuality. To this extent, his thinking inaugurates a new relation to the becoming of sense that overcomes cruel thought. Merleau-Ponty’s work gives voice to a wisdom of dispossession that allows for the withdrawal of being.

Never before has anyone engaged with the theme of Merleau-Ponty’s own understanding of philosophy in such a sustained way as Whitmoyer does in this volume.

Keith Whitmoyer is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pace University, the School of Visual Arts, and the New York City College of Technology, USA.

1. Introduction

Part I: Cruel Thought

2. First Chapter, Interrogation, Cruel Thought and Inquisition
3. Second Chapter, Cruel Thought and the Object
4. Third Chapter, Cruel Thought and a Consciousness Without Fissures
5. Fourth Chapter, Transcendental Contamination and the Permanent Dissonance of Being

Part II: The Deflagration of Sense

6. Fifth Chapter, Le sentir and the Genesis of Sense: Perceptual Synthesis and Temporality
7. Sixth Chapter, Temporality disparue
8. Seventh Chapter, Freedom and Lateness to Becoming

Part III: Philosophy of Weakness, Philosophy of Lateness

9. Eighth Chapter, Merleau-Ponty’s Eulogy to Philosophy
10. Ninth Chapter, The Lateness of Philosophy
11. Tenth Chapter, Fugitive Love: At the Point of Departure

12. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-350-00397-2 / 1350003972
ISBN-13	978-1-350-00397-2 / 9781350003972
Zustand	Neuware