-
64Heidegger, Paul Klee, and the Origin of the Work of ArtReview of Metaphysics 60 (2): 327-357. 2006.
-
53Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Itinerary From Body Schema to Situated KnowledgeJanus Head 9 (2): 525-550. 2007.This paper addresses a number of issues concerning both the status of phenomenology in the work of one of its classical expositors, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the general relation between theoretical models and evidence in phenomenological accounts. In so doing, I will attempt to explain Merleau-Ponty's departure from classical transcendental accounts in Husserl's thought and why Merleau-Ponty increasingly elaborated on them through aesthetic rationality. The result is a phenomenology that no lo…Read more
-
42Heidegger, Rationality, and the Critique of JudgmentReview of Metaphysics 41 (3). 1988.THE OPENING OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER'S summer of 1928 Marburg lectures on logic is, to use a word he himself invokes elsewhere about these matters, "dismaying"--providing perhaps additional evidence for the perennial charge that aspects of his work contain tendencies toward irrationalism, mysticism, and forms of nostalgic romanticism. In fact, the lectures show Heidegger calling for nothing less than a "destruction of logic," a move not only consistent with a similar destruction in Being and Time, pu…Read more
-
37“Philosophy is also an Architecture of Signs”: On Merleau-Ponty and CavaillèsResearch in Phenomenology 46 (1): 35-53. 2016._ Source: _Volume 46, Issue 1, pp 35 - 53 In a letter written at the end of July 1930, Jean Cavaillès singled out two of his successful students at the _Ecole Normale_, Merleau-Ponty and Lautman, “full of interest in the philosophy of mathematics”. While both would play an important role in French philosophy in the coming decades, one almost never thinks of their names together. Indeed, only rarely do we think of Merleau-Ponty and Cavaillès together. This paper will argue against this rarity. Ca…Read more
-
37Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Community (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1996.This collection examines the relationship between phenomenology, interpretation, and community, considering the issues from several viewpoints including German idealism, the discourses of the Frankfurt School, and post-structuralist thought
-
29Cancellations: Notes on Merleau-ponty's standing between Hegel and HusserlResearch in Phenomenology 17 (1): 191-209. 1987.
-
25Interpretation, dialogue, and friendship: On the remainder of C ommunityResearch in Phenomenology 26 (1): 54-97. 1996.
-
21Pretexts: Language, perception, and the cogito in Merleau-ponty's thoughtResearch in Phenomenology 10 (1): 142-166. 1980.
-
19Merleau-Ponty, the Ethics of Ambiguity, and the Dialectics of VirtueIn Patrick Burke and Jan van Der Veken (ed.), Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Perspective, . pp. 147--170. 1993.
-
16Levinas, the ethics of deconstruction, and the remainder of the sublimeMan and World 21 (1): 35-64. 1988.
-
16Extensions: Essays on Interpretation, Rationality, and the Closure of ModernismState University of New York Press. 1992.In ten essays, originally published 1987-91 and in some cases revised for the collection, Watson (philosophy, U. of Notre Dame) constructs a conception of rationality that moves between the extremes of the absolute and the ephemeral.
-
13Proust’s Disenchantments, the “Repoetization” of Experience, and the Lineaments of the VisibleChiasmi International 21 117-134. 2019.This paper investigates the role of literature and, in particular, Proust in Merleau-Ponty’s late works’ rehabilitation of the ontology of the sensible. First, I trace Proust’s role in Phenomenology of Percpetion, contrasting it with the somewhat more paradigmatic status as a model it plays in the late works. Second, I compare this with the role of the novel as partial myth in Schelling, who also played an essential role in Merleau-Ponty’s refiguration of the sensible. I briefly trace his examin…Read more
-
12On the Mutations of the Concept: Phenomenology, Conceptual Change, and the Persistence of Hegel in Merleau-Ponty’s ThoughtIn Cynthia D. Coe (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 481-507. 2021.This chapter will be devoted to the itinerary of classical German thought, and especially Hegel, in Merleau-Ponty’s thought. I begin by examining Merleau-Ponty’s initial use of Hegel’s systematic and metaphysicalmetaphysics ideas in phenomenological analyses of behavior and perception. Next, I examine Merleau-Ponty’s role in controversies regarding the existentialists’ interpretation and objections to Hegel’s system. I trace his attempts to surmount antinomiesantinomy between subjectivitysubject…Read more
-
12On the Metamorphoses of Transcendental Reduction: Merleau-Ponty and “the Adventures of Constitutive Analysis.”In Véronique M. Fóti & Pavlos Kontos (eds.), Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political: Essays in Honor of Jacques Taminiaux, Springer. 2017.Invocations of Merleau-Ponty’s claim concerning the incompleteness that accompanies the phenomenological reduction have had a long and somewhat contentious history. In this paper I will further explore the implications of Merleau-Ponty’s claim and the itinerary from which it emerges. From the Structure of Behaviour onward, he argued that consciousness is not a transcendental presupposition but an achievement that emerges from and transforms the labor of our rational practices. Phenomenological t…Read more
-
11Tradition(s) Ii: Hermeneutics, Ethics, and the Dispensation of the GoodIndiana University Press. 2001.Tradition II Hermeneutics, Ethics, and the Dispensation of the Good Stephen H. Watson Examines concepts of tradition in 20th-century Continental philosophy. In Tradition II, Stephen H. Watson engages post-Kantian Continental philosophy in his continuing investigation into the concept of tradition which he began in his work, Tradition. According to Watson, the problem of tradition became explicit in 20th-century philosophy, and is especially apparent in the work of Heidegger, Gadamer, Husserl, Be…Read more
-
9On the Agon of the Phenomenological: Intentional Idioms and JustificationPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 17 (3): 289-312. 1987.
-
8Hermeneutics and the Retrieval of the Sacred: Hegel's GiottoReview of Metaphysics 72 (4): 741-765. 2019.
-
7The Gathering of Reason, by John SallisJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 14 (2): 207-209. 1983.
-
The adventures of the narrativeIn Hugh J. Silverman (ed.), Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Merleau-Ponty, Routledge. 1988.
-
AbyssesIn Hugh J. Silverman & Don Ihde (eds.), Hermeneutics & deconstruction, State University of New York Press. pp. 235--236. 1985.
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |