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Phenomenology and "Hyper-Reflection"In Rosalyn Diprose & Jack Reynolds (eds.), , Acumen Publishing. 2008.
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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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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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2Phenomenology and Environmental EthicsIn Stephen M. Gardiner & Allen Thompson (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2017.The historically rich and diverse tradition of phenomenology has contributed broadly to the emergence of environmental thought across the humanities and social sciences and is increasingly influential on environmental ethics and philosophy. Emphasizing the primacy of experience and inquiry into the epistemological and ontological assumptions that inform the historical and contemporary relationship with nature, phenomenology takes a critical distance from metaphysical naturalism and the instrumen…Read more
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19The 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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60The Elemental PastResearch in Phenomenology 44 (2): 262-279. 2014.In a 1951 debate that marked the beginnings of the analytic-continental divide, Maurice Merleau-Ponty sided with Georges Bataille in rejecting A. J. Ayer’s claim that “the sun existed before human beings.” This rejection is already anticipated in a controversial passage from Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, where he claims that “there is no world without an Existence that bears its structure.” I defend Merleau-Ponty’s counterintuitive position against naturalistic and anti-subjectivi…Read more
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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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28Our Monstrous FuturesSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 21 (1): 219-230. 2017.Apocalyptic fictions abound in contemporary culture, multiplying end-of-the-world fantasies of environmental collapse. Meanwhile, efforts toward global sustainability extrapolate from deep-past trends to predict and manage deep-future scenarios. These narratives converge in “eco-eschatologies,” which work as phantasms that construct our identities, our understanding of the world, and our sense of responsibility in the present. I critique ecoeschatology’s reliance on an interpretation of deep tim…Read more
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58Phenomenological method in Merleau-ponty's critique of GurwitschHusserl Studies 17 (3): 195-205. 2001.
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'Strange Kinship’: Merleau-Ponty on the Human-Animal RelationIn Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), , Springer. 2006.
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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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96Singing the world in a new key: Merleau-Ponty and the ontology of senseJanus Head 7 (2): 273-283. 2004.To what extent can meaning be attributed to nature, and what is the relationship between such “natural sense” and the meaning of linguistic and artistic expressions? To shed light on such questions, this essay lays the groundwork for an “ontology of sense” drawing on the insights of phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty’s theory of expression. We argue that the ontological continuity of organic life with the perceived world of nature requires situating sense at a level that is more fundamental than ha…Read more
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27Résumé: La mélodie de la vie et Ie motif de la philosophieChiasmi International 7 279-279. 2005.
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43Riassunto: La melodia della vita e il motivo della filosofiaChiasmi International 7 279-279. 2005.
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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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51Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of NatureNorthwestern University Press. 2009.In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question of nature is almost entirely forgotten—obscured in part by a myopic focus on solving "environmental problems" without asking how these problems are framed. But an "environmental crisis," existing as it does in the human world of value and significance, is at heart a philosophical crisis. In this book, Toadvine demonstrates how Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology has a special power to address such a crisis—a philosophical power far…Read more
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Merleau-ponty's reading of HusserlIn Ted Toadvine & Lester Embree (eds.), , Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 227-286. 2002.
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