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OverviewAssesses Merleau-Ponty's contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Glen A. MazisPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438462301ISBN 10: 1438462301 Pages: 414 Publication Date: 02 July 2017 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Preface: From Silence to Depth Acknowledgments Abbreviations for Works by Merleau-Ponty Introduction: Merleau-Ponty's Warning of an ""Endless Nightmare"" Part I. Entering the World of Expressive Silence I. Hearkening to Silence: Merleau-Ponty beyond Postmodernism II. Language as a Power for Error and Violence III. A Different Silence and the World's Gesture IV. Silence, the Depth of the Flesh and Its Movement V. Silence Sings as We Do When Happy: Charged Evanescence VI. Language Can Live Only from its Roots in Silence VII. Indirect Expression as Silence Entering Language VIII. Silence, Duration, and Vertical Time IX. Silence Arrives at the First Day Part II. Faces of the World--Desiring Sensibility and Ethics I. Physiognomic Sense and Faces within the World II. The Face of Desire III. Merleau-Ponty's Face of this World and Levinas's Face of the Other World IV. Perceptual Otherness, Not Absolute Otherness V. An Ethics of Flesh: Saint-ExupA(c)ry, Merleau-Ponty, and Felt Solidarity VI. Lateral Unity versus Vertical Identity: Kinship versus Substitution VII. The Ethical Alterity of Depth of this World Rather than Absolute Height Part III. The Imaginal, Oneiric Materiality, and Poetic Language I. Early Implied Physiognomic Imagination II. Sketches of the Imaginal in Myth, Film, and Children III. Imaginal of Institution, Sensible Ideas, and Proustian Sensitivity IV. Later Writings: Toward an Imaginal Ontology V. Bachelard's Material Imagination and Flesh of the World VI. Toward a Poetic Ontology VII. A Poetics of Philosophy Conclusion: Sense and Solidarity at the Depths of World Notes Works Cited Index"ReviewsBefore his death in 1961, Merleau-Ponty worried about what he saw as humanity's increasingly self-enclosed and manipulative way of experiencing self, others, and the world-the consequences of which remain apparent in our destructive inability to connect with others within and across cultures. In Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World, Glen A. Mazis provides an overall consideration of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy that brings out what he sees as a corrective prescription for ethical reorientation that is fundamental to Merleau-Ponty's thought. Mazis begins by analyzing the key role that silence plays for Merleau-Ponty as a positive, powerful presence rather than a lack or emptiness, and then builds on this to explore the ethical significance of the face-to-face encounter in his thought as one of solidarity rather than obligation. In the last part of the book, Mazis traces the development of what he calls physiognomic imagination in Merleau-Ponty's work. This understanding of imagination is not fancy or make-believe, but rather brings out the depths of perceptual meaning and leads to an appreciation of poetic language as the key to revitalizing both ethics and ontology. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty's published works, lecture notes, unpublished writings, and the work of many phenomenologists and Merleau-Ponty scholars, Mazis also offers incisive readings of Merleau-Ponty's work as it relates to that of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Gaston Bachelard, and Emmanuel Levinas. Mazis has written an ambitious, highly interesting, and cohesive book that introduces an often-missed element of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty in an easily readable form. - Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Author InformationGlen A. Mazis is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Penn State Harrisburg. He is the author of Earthbodies: Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses and Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries, both also published by SUNY Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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