[Xmca-l] Re: New translation of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception

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On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wanted to send an article that explores *dialogical interstitial spaces*
> as a way of learning thinking.
> It gives concrete examples and brings in Merleau-Ponty and Bahktin.
> Greg, I also believe it is a different understanding of *agency* that your
> question calls us to consider.
> Is there *agency* existing WITHIN *dialogical interstitial spaces*?
>
> Larry
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Martin John Packer <
> mpacker@uniandes.edu.co
> > wrote:
>
> > <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415834339/>
> >
> > First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental
> Phénoménologie
> > de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and
> > intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing
> picture
> > of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the
> > landmark works of twentieth-century thought. This new translation, the
> > first for over fifty years, makes this classic work of philosophy
> available
> > to a new generation of readers.
> >
> > Phenomenology of Perception stands in the great phenomenological
> tradition
> > of Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Yet Merleau-Ponty’s contribution is
> > decisive, as he brings this tradition and other philosophical
> predecessors,
> > particularly Descartes and Kant, to confront a neglected dimension of our
> > experience: the lived body and the phenomenal world. Charting a bold
> course
> > between the reductionism of science on the one hand and "intellectualism"
> > on the other, Merleau-Ponty argues that we should regard the body not as
> a
> > mere biological or physical unit, but as the body which structures one’s
> > situation and experience within the world.
> >
> > Merleau-Ponty enriches his classic work with engaging studies of famous
> > cases in the history of psychology and neurology as well as phenomena
> that
> > continue to draw our attention, such as phantom limb syndrome,
> > synaesthesia, and hallucination. This new translation includes many
> helpful
> > features such as the reintroduction of Merleau-Ponty’s discursive Table
> of
> > Contents as subtitles into the body of the text, a comprehensive
> > Translator’s Introduction to its main themes, essential notes explaining
> > key terms of translation, an extensive Index, and an important updating
> of
> > Merleau-Ponty’s references to now available English translations.
> >
> > Also included is a new foreword by Taylor Carman and an introduction to
> > Merleau-Ponty by Claude Lefort.
> >
> > Translated by Donald A. Landes.
> >
> > ====
> > "It is impossible to define an object in cutting it off from the subject
> > through which and for which it is an object; and the subject reveals
> itself
> > only through the objects in which it is engaged. Such an affirmation only
> > makes the content of naive experience explicit, but it is rich in
> > consequences. Only in taking it as a basis will one succeed in building
> an
> > ethics to which man can totally and sincerely adhere. It is therefore of
> > extreme importance to establish it solidly and to give back to man this
> > childish audacity that years of verbal submission have taken away: the
> > audacity to say: "I am here." This is why The Phenomenology of Perception
> > by Maurice Merleau-Ponty is not only a remarkable specialist work but a
> > book that is of interest to the whole of man and to every man; the human
> > condition is at stake in this book." - Simone de Beauvoir, 1945
> >
> > ====
> > Foreword, Taylor Carman
> > Introduction, Claude Lefort
> > Preface
> > Introduction: Classical Prejudices and the Return to Phenomena
> > I. Sensation
> > II. Association and the Projection of Memories
> > III. Attention and Judgment
> >  IV. The Phenomenal Field
> > Part 1: The Body
> > 1. The Body as an Object and Mechanistic Physiology
> > 2. The Experience of the Body and Classical Psychology
> > 3. The Spatiality of the One’s Own Body and Motility
> > 4. The Synthesis of One’s Own Body
> > 5. The Body as a Sexed Being
> > 6. Speech and the Body as Expression
> > Part 2: The Perceived World
> > 7. Sensing
> > 8. Space
> > 9. The Thing and the Natural World
> > 10. Others and the Human World
> > Part 3: Being-For-Itself and Being-In-The-World
> > 11. The Cogito
> > 12. Temporality
> > 13. Freedom
> > Original Bibliography
> > Bibliography of English Translations cited
> > Additional Work Cited
> > Index
> >
> > Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born in 1908 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France.
> Drawn
> > to philosophy from a young age, Merleau-Ponty would go on to study
> > alongside Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Simone Weil at the
> > famous École Normale Supérieure. He completed a Docteur ès lettres based
> on
> > two dissertations, La structure du comportement (1942) andPhénoménologie
> de
> > la perception (1945). After a brief post at the University of Lyon,
> > Merleau-Ponty returned to Paris in 1949 when he was awarded the Chair of
> > Psychology and Pedagogy at the Sorbonne. In 1952 he became the youngest
> > philosopher ever appointed to the prestigious Chair of Philosophy at the
> > Collège de France. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1961 aged fifty-three,
> > at the height of his career. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in
> > Paris.
> >
> >
>