Intertwinings : interdisciplinary encounters with Merleau-Ponty

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Intertwinings : interdisciplinary encounters with Merleau-Ponty

edited by Gail Weiss

State University of New York Press, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Intertwinings presents exciting interdisciplinary scholarship on twentieth-century French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The contributors break new ground by bringing Merleau-Ponty's work into conversation with literary theory, architecture, cultural studies, critical race studies, and current feminist theory and practice. Spanning Merleau-Ponty's early and late thought, this volume focuses on the ontological, ethical, and political implications of his unique emphasis on the constitutive intertwinings of inside and outside, self and other, language and gesture, body and world, and identity and difference. Intertwinings affirms Merleau-Ponty's insight that we should not eradicate, but rather celebrate, the corporeal differences that make our encounters with both human and nonhuman others a source of inexplicable richness and endless fascination.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Gail Weiss Part I Ontological and Developmental Concerns: Difference and the Other 1. Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology Elizabeth Grosz 2. Elemental Alterity: Levinas and Merleau-Ponty Lawrence Hass 3. The Developing Body: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty’s Conception of Women in the Sorbonne Lectures Talia Welsh Part II Feminist Possibilities: Reading Irigaray, Reading Merleau-Ponty 4. Phenomenology in the Feminine: Irigaray’s Relationship to Merleau-Ponty Annemie Halsema 5. The Language of the Lips, Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray: Toward a Culture of Difference Bruce Young Part III Literary Enactments: Merleau-Ponty, Proust, and Stein 6. Among the Hawthorns: Marcel Proust and Maurice Merleau-Ponty Patricia M. Locke 7. “Mixing the Outside with the Inside”: Interior Geographies and Domestic Horizons in Gertrude Stein Justine Dymond Part IV Ethical Challenges: Recognition, Reciprocity, Violence, and Care 8. Beyond Recognition: Merleau-Ponty and an Ethics of Vision Kelly Oliver 9. Ethical Reciprocity at the Interstices of Communion and Disruption Sally Fischer 10. Merleau-Ponty, Reciprocity, and the Reversibility of Perspectives Greg Johnson 11. Entering the Place We Already Live: A Phenomenology of Female Voice Janice McLane 12. Resources for Feminist Care Ethics in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of the Body Maurice Hamington Part V Sedimented Meanings: Conservation and Transformation 13. Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks? Habitual Horizons in James, Bourdieu, and Merleau-Ponty Gail Weiss 14. The Borderlands of Identity and Culture Rashmika Pandya 15. Entwining the Body and the World: Architectural Design and Experience in the Light of “Eye and Mind” Rachel McCann List of Contributors Index

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