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. > >
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