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14Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (edited book)Lexington Books. 2009.Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers including Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. The book offers an intercultural philosophy in which opposites intermingle in a chiasmic relationship, and which brings new understanding regarding the self and the self's relation with others in a globalized and multicultural world
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3Merleau-Ponty and God: Hallowing the HollowLexington Books. 2017.In this book, Michael P. Berman uses Merleau-Ponty’s thought to develop a critique, grounded in his phenomenology, of certain issues in the philosophy of religion such as faith, love, vision, soul, magic and miracles, judgment, evil, and hallowing.
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53The World of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty Translated by Oliver Davis New York: Routledge, 2004, 125 pp., $29.95 (review)Dialogue 45 (2): 410. 2006.
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48The thought space of God: The haunting below the I-thou relationHeythrop Journal 54 (1): 70-76. 2013.This essay attempts a phenomenological analysis of Descartes' statement, ‘my perception of God is prior to my perception of myself,’ and Buber's claim that God ‘is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.’ I radicalize the implications of Descartes' and Buber's claims by drawing on the thought of Husserl and Levinas, and couching the analysis in terms of Merleau-Ponty's experiential notions of haunting and reversibility. This forces us to interrogate the subjective space in …Read more
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14Buddhism and the Emerging World Civilization: Essays in Honor of Nolan Pliny JacobsonPhilosophy East and West 47 (4): 599. 1997.
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108Reflection, Objectivity, and the Love of God, A Passage from Merleau‐Ponty's Phenomenology of PerceptionHeythrop Journal 63 (4): 520-530. 2022.The Heythrop Journal, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 520-530, July 2022.
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9The Situatedness of Judgment and Action in Arendt and Merleau-PontyJournal of International Political Theory 2 202-220. 2006.
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43The Hyper-Dialectic in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of the FleshPhilosophy Today 47 (4): 404-420. 2003.
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75‘The Happy Accident’: Merleau-Ponty and Kant on the Judgment of GodThe European Legacy 16 (2): 223-236. 2011.Kant's ideas about, questions, and challenges to the Western tradition of philosophy reverberate into the third century of the reception of his texts. The writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the twentieth-century French existential and hermeneutic phenomenologist, are interlaced with engagements with Kant's ideas. Often these incidents are marked by Merleau-Ponty's critique, yet there is a noticeable recurrence of his efforts to contend with Kant's philosophy. In Merleau-Ponty's course notes, Nat…Read more
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29The Situatedness of Judgment and Action in Arendt and Merleau-PontyPolitics and Ethics Review 2 (2): 202-220. 2006.
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68The dirty wordThink 10 (27): 77-81. 2011.For the first two years of my daughter's life, I was scheduled to teach an Introductory Logic course. While I had taught Critical Thinking courses in the past, having to steep myself in categorical and propositional logic left a lasting impression on my own thinking. More importantly, though, these courses influenced my speech-habits during the early years of my child's development. By no means do I intend to assert that my child somehow gained some cognitive benefit from my communication with h…Read more
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104Merleau‐Ponty and Nagarjuna: relational social ontology and the ground of ethicsAsian Philosophy 14 (2). 2004.Through a comparative analysis of the key ontological notions in Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna, I develop a relational social ontology that is grounded in their respective implicit and explicit ethics. Both thinkers take heed of our being-in-the-world; this is evident in their views on intersubjective sociality and language. Recognizing the limitations in these views points us toward a greater understanding of the meaningfulness of our situated existences. In this vein, I propose a number of ideas…Read more
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1Merleau-ponty and nagarjuna : Enlightenment, ethics, and politicsIn Jin Y. Park & Gereon Kopf (eds.), Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism, Lexington Books. 2009.
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1Images of Absence in P.K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Literature & Aesthetics 16 (2): 75-94. 2006.
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1Heroes, Monsters and Values: Philosophy and Sci-Fi Films of the 1970's (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2011.
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1Deception as the self in Zamyatin's weIn Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici & Ernesto Virgulti (eds.), Disguise, Deception, Trompe-L'oeil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Peter Lang. 2009.
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Brock UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Continental Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |
Literature |
Religious Studies |