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14Utopia and Text: Ricoeur’s Critique of IdeologySymposium 4 (2): 221-235. 2000.In Lectures on Ideology and Utopia, Ricoeur claims that utopia can offer an adequate critique of ideology. Both contribute to the way in which a group identifies itself, with ideology providing common values and images, and utopia challenging those common values with new, imaginative alternatives for interpreting society. I relate this analysis to Ricoeur’s earlier works on text to show how using utopias tocriticize ideologies is like using a semiotic analysis of a text to disclose underlying te…Read more
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2After Modernity (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 3 (1): 135-138. 1999.
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17Utopia and TextSymposium 4 (2): 221-235. 2000.In Lectures on Ideology and Utopia, Ricoeur claims that utopia can offer an adequate critique of ideology. Both contribute to the way in which a group identifies itself, with ideology providing common values and images, and utopia challenging those common values with new, imaginative alternatives for interpreting society. I relate this analysis to Ricoeur’s earlier works on text to show how using utopias tocriticize ideologies is like using a semiotic analysis of a text to disclose underlying te…Read more
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1Imagining Bodies with Merleau-PontyDissertation, Mcmaster University (Canada). 2000.The imagination plays a central role in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. In his earlier works, the imagination is shown to be the creative ability of the body to have a sense of space and motility in terms of which we are able to make sense of the world. In his later works, the view that the human body is a dynamic and creative process of realizing possibilities is extended to ontology; Being is shown to be a continual dissemination of meaning through the medium of 'flesh'. Thus Merleau-Ponty's philo…Read more
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5Imagining Bodies: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of ImaginationDuquesne. 2004."The book also amends traditional theories of imagination by suggesting a new approach to determining what it is and how it functions. The imagination is not only extended beyond the realm of fanciful thinking but is restored as being essentially spatial and embodied; there is a primacy of the imaginary within perceptual experience. Further, Steeves demonstrates a stronger connection between Merleau-Ponty's early works on the body and perception and his later works on aesthetic and social theory…Read more
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2Jon Stewart, ed., The Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (5): 380-382. 1999.
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41The Virtual Body: Merleau-Ponty’s Early Philosophy Of ImaginationPhilosophy Today 45 (4): 370-380. 2001.
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84The Virtual Body: Merleau-Ponty’s Early Philosophy Of ImaginationPhilosophy Today 45 (4): 370-380. 2001.
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Jon Stewart, ed., The Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty (review)Philosophy in Review 19 380-382. 1999.
James Steeves
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Peel District School BoardCommunicationsIntermediate Communications Teacher