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45Kascha Semonovitch and Neal DeRoo, eds. , Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 31 (1): 70-73. 2011.
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Dorothea Olkowski and Gail Weiss, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-PontyPhilosophy in Review 28 (1): 64. 2008.
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36The Meontic and the Militant: On Merleau-Ponty’s Relation to Fink∗International Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (5): 669-699. 2011.This paper clarifies the relationship between Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception and Fink’s Sixth Cartesian Meditation with regard to ‘the idea of a transcendental theory of method’. Although Fink’s text played a singularly important role in the development of Merleau-Ponty’s postwar thought, contrary to recent claims made by Ronald Bruzina this influence was not positive. Reconstructing the basic methodological claims of each text, in particular with regard to the being of the phenomen…Read more
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13Michael Wayne, Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 35 (4): 228-230. 2015.
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20Merleau-Ponty and the Myth of Human IncarnationJournal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (3): 382-394. 2016.In this article I will argue that Merleau-Ponty’s reinterpretation of Husserlian phenomenology—in particular as this was initially worked out in Phenomenology of Perception1—is premised methodologically on a certain mythic view of nature and of human embodiment in particular. I will claim, in other words, that the corporeal turn that is central to the philosophical attractiveness of Merleau-Pontian phenomenology rests upon a myth. Within the constraints of this short article, I will explain how …Read more
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10Generating Sense: Schizophrenia and Phenomenological PraxisSchutzian Research. A Yearbook of Worldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science 3 (n/a): 121-132. 2011.The aim of phenomenology is to provide a critical account of the origins and genesis of the world. This implies that the standpoint of the phenomenologicalreduction is properly extramundane. But it remains an outstanding task to formulate a credible account of the reduction that would be adequate to this seemingly impossible methodological condition. This paper contributes to rethinking the reduction accordingly. Building on efforts to thematize its intersubjective and corporeal aspects, the red…Read more
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Bernard Flynn, The Philosophy of Claude Lefort: Interpreting the PoliticalPhilosophy in Review 27 (1): 22. 2007.
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Leonard Lawlor, This is Not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (5): 346-348. 2008.
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26Erika Abrams and Ivan Chvatík, eds. , Jan Patočka and the Heritage of Phenomenology: Centenary Papers . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 31 (5): 310-313. 2011.
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32The primacy question in Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenologyContinental Philosophy Review 50 (1): 127-149. 2016.This paper takes up the question as to what has primacy within Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenology as a way to provide insight into the relation between empirical science and transcendental philosophy within his account of embodiment. Contending that this primacy necessarily pertains to methodology, I show how Kurt Goldstein’s conception of biology provided Merleau-Ponty with a scientific model for approaching human existence holistically in which primacy pertains to the transcendental pra…Read more
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Nick Hewlett, Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Re-thinking Emancipation Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (6): 411-413. 2008.
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71Michael J. Thompson, ed., Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Review by Bryan Smyth (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 16 (2): 274-280. 2012.
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508Heroism and history in Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenologyContinental Philosophy Review 43 (2): 167-191. 2010.Whereas Phenomenology of Perception concludes with a puzzling turn to “heroism,” this article examines the short essay “Man, the Hero” as a source of insight into Merleau-Ponty’s thought in the early postwar period. In this essay, Merleau-Ponty presented a conception of heroism through which he expressed the attitude toward post-Hegelian philosophy of history that underwrote his efforts to reform Marxism along existential lines. Analyzing this conception of heroism by unpacking the implicit cont…Read more
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