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Subject(s)

• Subjectivity [Browse]
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 1908-1961 [Browse]

Series

SUNY series in contemporary French thought. [More in this series]

Summary note

An original interpretation of Merleau-Ponty on subjectivity, drawing from and challenging both the continental and analytic traditions.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Chapter 1 Situation and the Embodied Mind 11
• I Mind, Self, World 11
• Representation 13
• Behavior 15
• Situated Cognition 19
• II Perception 22
• Sensation 22
• Spatiality 28
• III Situated Subjectivity 34
• Chapter 2 Making Space 39
• I Subjectivity, Sensation, and Depth 39
• Affordance Depth 46
• Spectral Depth 48
• Spatial 'Levels' 54
• Time, Space, and Sensation 55
• The Depth of the Past 65
• II Learning 66
• Chapter 3 Subjectivity and the 'Style' of the World 79
• I The 'Subject' and the 'World' of Situated Cognition 79
• Sensorimotor Laws 80
• Sensorimotor Subjectivity 85
• Ecological Laws 88
• Ecological Subjectivity 90
• II Perception and Subjectivity beyond Metaphysics 94
• Chapter 4 Auto-affection and Alterity 113
• I Presence 113
• The 'Privilege' of the Present 118
• Auto-affection 125
• II The Deconstruction of Presence 128
• Derrida's Appraisal of Husserl's Phenomenology 128
• Derrida on the Lived Body ('Leib'; 'le corps propre') 133
• Derrida's Deconstruction of 'Intercorporeity' 139
• III Auto-hetero-affection in Merleau-Ponty 141
• Intercorporeity and Intersubjectivity 141
• Body Schema 148
• Auto-hetero-affection as the Advent of the Intercorporeal Body 155
• Chapter 5 Ipseity and Language 165
• I Language and Gesture 165
• The Tacit Cogito 169
• Perceptual Meaning and Natural Expression 172
• The Paradox of Expression 176
• Institution 179
• II Diacritical Intercorporeity 181
• III Expression and Subjectivity 187.

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ISBN

• 1-4619-0783-7
• 1-4384-4233-5

OCLC

802059014

Doi

• 10.1515/9781438442334

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