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16The Time of Animal VoicesEnvironmental Philosophy 11 (1): 109-124. 2014.Phenomenology’s attention to the theme of animality has focused not on animal life in general but rather on the animal dimension of the human and its contested relation with humanity as such. Phenomenology thereby reproduces Agamben’s “anthropological machine” by which humanity is constructed through the “inclusive exclusion” of its animality. The alternative to this “inclusive exclusion” is not a return to kinship or commonality but rather an intensification of the constitutive paradox of our o…Read more
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15Experience and the Environment: Phenomenology Returns to Earth (review)Human Studies 28 (1): 101-106. 2005.
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15Diacritics of the Inexpressible: Tracing Expression with Véronique FótiChiasmi International 16 307-313. 2014.Véronique Fóti’s Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty demonstrates how the problem of expression motivates and unifies Merleau-Ponty’s investigations of art, life, nature, and ontology, culminating in a timely conception of nature as a differential expressive matrix. The key to this expressive ontology is diacritical difference. We raise three questions for this diacritical ontology: how it embodies the memory of the world, how it is interrupted by transcendence, and how it dissolves into element…Read more
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14Anglo-American and Continental accounts of interpretive practice, as developed by David Henderson and Hans-Georg Gadamer agree on interpretation's holistic character and on the necessity of a charitable initial stage of interpretation which provides a background for later disagreements or attributions of irrationality. The divergence of these accounts regarding the weighting of charitable expectations and whether interpretation aims for explicability or agreement raises questions concerning the …Read more
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14Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Lifeworldly NaturalismIn Lester Embree & Thomas Nenon (eds.), Husserl’s Ideen, Springer. pp. 365--380. 2013.
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12Derrida and Phenomenology, edited by William McKenna and J. Claude EvansJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 30 (3): 348-350. 1999.
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12Merleau-Ponty (edited book)Routledge. 2006.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has been hailed by many as the greatest French thinker of the twentieth century. As one of the founding members of the existentialist movement in the 1940s, he played a key role in introducing the work of Husserl and Heidegger into French thought and collaborated with Jean-Paul Sartre in the founding of Les Temps Modernes. His later work laid the foundation for the development of French thought in the direction of post-structuralism and post-modernism.
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12The Cogito in Merleau-Ponty's Theory of IntersubjectivityJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 31 (2): 197-202. 2000.
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7Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl explores the relationship between two of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century: Edmund Husserl, the father of modern phenomenology, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, considered by many to be his greatest philosophical heir. While Merleau-Ponty's influence on the dissemination and reception of Husserl's thought is indisputable, unresolved questions remain concerning the philosophical projects of these two thinkers: Does phenomenology first reach its true poten…Read more
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6Le temps des voix animalesChiasmi International 15 269-282. 2013.Phenomenology’s attention to the theme of animality has focused not on animal life in general but rather on the animal dimension of the human and its contested relation with humanity as such. Phenomenology thereby reproduces Agamben’s “anthropological machine” by which humanity is constructed through the “inclusive exclusion” of its animality. The alternative to this “inclusive exclusion” is not, however, a return to kinship or commonality but rather an intensification of the constitutive parado…Read more
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2Richard Holmes, The Transcendence of the World: Phenomenological Studies Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (4): 252-254. 1995.
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'Strange Kinship’: Merleau-Ponty on the Human-Animal RelationIn Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), , Springer. 2006.
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Contradiction, Expression, and Chiasm: The Development of Intersubjectivity in Maurice Merleau-PontyDissertation, The University of Memphis. 1996.This dissertation reconstructs the development of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's position on intersubjectivity and argues that the faults of his earlier formulations are eliminated in the final, viable account of the experience of others. ;During the Phenomenology of Perception period, Merleau-Ponty treats the experience of others as a "transcendental contradiction," a finite and precarious synthesis between the contradictory requirements that the other be presented to consciousness yet escape the cons…Read more
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