Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology and the realization of philosophy
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology and the realization of philosophy
（Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy）
Bloomsbury, 2014
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [179]-197
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Bringing to light the essential philosophical role of Marxism within Merleau-Ponty's reinterpretation of transcendental phenomenology, this book shows that the realization of this project hinges methodologically upon a renewed conception of the proletariat qua universal class-specifically, that it rests upon a humanist myth of incarnation which, substantiated by Merleau-Ponty's notion of 'heroism', locates an objective historical purposiveness in the habituated organism of the modern subject.
Foregrounding the phenomenological priority of history over corporeality in this way, Smyth's analysis recovers the 'militant' character of Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology. It thus sheds critical new light on his early thought, and challenges some of the main parameters of existing scholarship by disclosing the intrinsic normativity of his basic methodological commitments.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface: Rereading Phenomenology of Perception
Introduction: Flight from Phenomenology?
1. Antoine de Saint Exupery, 'Soliloquizing Angel'
2. Embodiment and Incarnation
3. Totality and Embodiment
4. Toward an Incarnational Phenomenology
5. Contemporary Heroism
Conclusion: Heroic Sublimation
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"