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383Between Sensibility and Understanding: Kant and Merleau-Ponty and the Critique of ReasonJournal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (3): 335-345. 2015.ABSTRACT Whether explicitly or implicitly, Kant's critical project weighs heavily upon Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. This article argues that we can understand Merleau-Ponty's text as a phenomenological rewriting of the Critique of Pure Reason from within the paradoxical structures of lived experience, effectively merging Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic and Transcendental Analytic. Although he was influenced by Husserl's and Heidegger's interpretations of Kant's first version of t…Read more
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359Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey: Giving Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2013.From his initial writings on imagination and memory, to his recent studies of the glance and the edge, the work of American philosopher Edward S. Casey continues to shape 20th-century philosophy. In this first study dedicated to his rich body of work, distinguished scholars from philosophy, urban studies and architecture as well as artists engage with Casey's research and ideas to explore the key themes and variations of his contribution to the humanities. Structured into three major parts, the …Read more
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309A Book Encounter (Critical Notice) of Leonard Lawlor's Early Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy.
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90Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of ExpressionBloomsbury Academic. 2013.Winner of the 2014 Edward Goodwin Ballard Award for an Outstanding Book in Phenomenology, awarded by the Center for Advance Research in Phenomenology. Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression offers a comprehensive reading of the philosophical work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a central figure in 20th-century continental philosophy. By establishing that the paradoxical logic of expression is Merleau-Ponty's fundamental philosophical gesture, this book ties together his diverse work on percept…Read more
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78Lancer comme une filleSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 21 (2): 19-43. 2017.
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63Individuals and technology: Gilbert Simondon, from Ontology to Ethics to Feminist BioethicsContinental Philosophy Review 47 (2): 153-176. 2014.Two key themes structure the work of French philosopher of science Gilbert Simondon: the processes of individuation and the nature of technical objects. Moreover, these two themes are also at the heart of contemporary debates within Ethics and Bioethics. Indeed, the question of the individual is a key concern in both Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics of Care, while the hyper-technical reality of the present stage of medical technology is a key reason for both the urgency for and the success of t…Read more
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53Expressive BodiesResearch in Phenomenology 45 (3): 369-385. 2015._ Source: _Volume 45, Issue 3, pp 369 - 385 In “The Vestige of Art,” Jean-Luc Nancy argues that art is neither representation nor inscription, but rather _exscription_. The figure is the vestige of an expressive gesture; it represents neither a separable idea nor the one who traced it but, rather _exscribes_ their presence and their world in the event of expression. As such, Nancy’s aesthetics in _The Muses_ deploys a certain logic of expression best understood in the tradition of Merleau-Pontia…Read more
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50Phronēsis and the Art of Healing: Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, and the Phenomenology of Equilibrium in HealthHuman Studies 38 (2): 261-279. 2015.In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle places the art of medicine alongside other examples of technē. According to Gadamer, however, medicine is different because in medicine the physician does not, properly speaking, produce anything. In The Enigma of Health, rather than introducing Aristotle’s intellectual virtue of phronēsis (practical wisdom) as a way of understanding medical practice, Gadamer focuses on how medicine is a technē “with a difference”. In this paper, I argue that, despite the ric…Read more
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42The Merleau-Ponty DictionaryBloomsbury Academic. 2013.Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) is one of the central figures of 20th-century Continental philosophy, and his work has been hugely influential in a wide range of fields. His writings engage in the study of perception, language, politics, aesthetics, history and ontology, and represent a rich and complex network of exciting ideas. The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary provides the reader and student of Merleau-Ponty with all the tools necessary to engage with this key thinker: a comprehensive A to Z tha…Read more
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37Husserl’s crisis of the european sciences and transcendental phenomenology: An introductiondermot Moran cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2012, 323 pp., $30 (review)Dialogue 52 (1): 195-197. 2013.
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36Language and development: paradoxical trajectories in Merleau-Ponty, Simondon, and BergsonPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (4): 597-607. 2017.
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30Phenomenology, Ontology, and the Arts: Reading Jessica Wiskus’s The Rhythm of Thought (review)Chiasmi International 16 351-359. 2014.Jessica Wiskus’s book The Rhythm of Thought: Art, Literature, and Music (University of Chicago Press, 2013) is a fascinating study of Merleau-Ponty’s late philosophy inrelation to the artistic expression of Mallarmé, Cézanne, Proust, and Debussy. By invoking examples from across the arts and citations from across Merleau-Ponty’soeuvre, Wiskus provides us with a style for reading some of Merleau-Ponty’s difficult late concepts, including noncoincidence, institution, essence, and transcendence.In …Read more
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30Avant-proposSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 21 (2): 10-18. 2017.
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28Phenomenology, Ontology, and the Arts: Reading Jessica Wiskus's The Rhythm of Thought (review)Chiasmi International 15 346-352. 2014.
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27I can” and “I speakChiasmi International 19 273-284. 2017.Although Merleau-Ponty and Blanchot both seek to undermine the classical subject of philosophical discourse as embodied in the self-transparent “I think,” their methodologies appear to be worlds apart. In his early work, Merleau-Ponty is engaged in a phenomenological rethinking of subjectivity via an elaboration of Husserl’s “I can,” whereas Blanchot seems to defer all subjectivity in his nomadic exploration of the space between literature, criticism, and theory. Rather than seeking to avoid thi…Read more
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26Spielraum, phenomenology, and the art of virtue: hints of an ‘embodied’ ethics in KantInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 24 (2): 234-251. 2016.Although the suggestion that Kant offers a significant contribution to Virtue Ethics might be a surprising one, in The Metaphysics of Morals Kant makes virtue central to his ethics. In this paper, I introduce a Merleau-Pontian phenomenological perspective into the ongoing study of the convergence between Kant and Virtue Ethics, and argue that such a perspective promises to illuminate the continuity of Kant’s thought through an emphasis on the implicit structure of moral experience, revealing the…Read more
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24This Phenomenological Patchwork (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 20 (4): 565-578. 2012.A Critical Notice of "The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology," Edited by Sebastian Luft and Søren Overgaard.
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23IntroductionSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 21 (2): 1-9. 2017.
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16Bergson et Deleuze sur L’évolution créatrice: Mot de présentationIthaque 21 167-176. 2017.Mot de présentation du dossier spécial intitulé "Bergson et Deleuze sur L’évolution créatrice"
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15Phenomenology, Ontology, and the Arts: Reading Jessica Wiskus’s The Rhythm of ThoughtAreté. Revista de Filosofía 28 (1): 193-201. 2016.
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13Le sujet de la sensation et le sujet résonantChiasmi International 19 143-162. 2017.Pour Merleau-Ponty et Nancy, le sujet et son monde co-naissent ensemble dans le mouvement paradoxal du sentir. Dans cette perspective, le sentir serait alors un point de départ privilégié afin de déconstruire les théories classiques de la subjectivité et pour construire une nouvelle compréhension décentrée du sujet. Même si ces deux philosophes divergent sur la question du sujet, il est possible de les rapprocher sur la question du sentir et en particulier à propos de l’expérience de l’écoute. D…Read more
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10Immanence, Difference, and the Overcoming of Metaphysics. An Encounter with Leonard Lawlor, Early Twentieth-Century Continental PhilosophyPhaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 8 (2). 2013.
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9IntroductionSymposium 25 (1): 1-18. 2021.As a descriptive philosophy, it might seem that the ethical nowhere has its place in phenomenology. And yet, phenomenology is every-where shot through with normative concerns. This section includes articles from the 2018 conference Toward a Phenomenological Ethics, where two themes emerged regarding the elusive place of the ethical in phenomenology: first, research demonstrates that early phenomenology was indeed oriented by the ethical; second, Critical Phenomenology examines ethical questions …Read more
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