First Nature. The Problem of Nature in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty /

First Nature. The Problem of Nature in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty /

This book explores a radically integrative phenomenology of nature through the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By revisiting novel empirical findings in the sciences and advances in scientific methods and concepts, Merleau-Ponty leads us to rediscover a first nature right at the heart of the subject....

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Main Author: Rotundo, Alessio (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Series: Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology ; 24.

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Phenomenology.
Philosophy.

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Call Number: B829.5

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Stating the Problem
  • 1 Preliminary Remarks
  • 2 Historical Contextualization
  • 3 Renewed Setting of the Problem
  • 1 Natura Sub Specie Structurae
  • 1 Science between Technocracy and Aesthetics
  • 2 The Disinterested and the Interested Onlooker
  • 3 Naturizing and Naturized Consciousness
  • 4 Phenomenology between Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
  • 2 Pathway to First Nature
  • Operative Intentionality from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Phenomenology as Redoing of Transcendental Philosophy
  • 3 Cartesian "Realism"
  • 4 The Genetic Turn in Phenomenology
  • 5 Operative Intentionality
  • 6 Brief Methodic Reflection on the "Idea of Being" in Phenomenology
  • 7 The Prejudice of the World
  • 8 Operative Intentionality as Temporalizing
  • 9 The Project of the Phenomenology of Perception as Enquiry into Operative Intentionality
  • 10 The Discovery of Contingency and Transcendental Philosophy: Descartes and Kant
  • 11 The Body Schema: Phenomenology of Perception I
  • 12 The Notion of Spatial Level: Phenomenology of Perception II
  • 13 Merleau-Ponty and Kant on Space
  • 3 Orders of Experience
  • 1 Introduction: The Eidetic of Experience and Language
  • 2 Approaches to Language
  • 3 The Act of Speech
  • 4 Language as Ontological Experience
  • 5 Speaking of Fundamentals: The Promise of Language
  • 6 Language and the Lifeworld: General Points from Phenomenology
  • 7 The Problem of Einströmen
  • 8 The Modal Ontology of the World
  • 9 History in Lifeworld Phenomenology
  • 4 Mundus Sensibilis
  • Structural Ontology between Merleau-Ponty and the New Philosophy of Science
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Ontic Structural Realism
  • 3 Syntactic and Semantic Views
  • 4 Invariance between Physics and Phenomenology
  • 5 Physics Deformalized
  • 6 Observation and Objectivation
  • 7 The Passage of Nature
  • 8 Natural Dynamis between Physics and Perception
  • 9 The Praxis of Nature, or What the Things Do
  • 5 Nature and Logos
  • 1 Introduction: Animal Nature
  • 2 Biology and Ontology
  • 3 Organic Totality
  • 4 The Ontology of the Umwelt : Uexküll's Notion of Umwelt
  • 5 Behavior, Consciousness, and World
  • 6 The Bivalent Ontology of the Umwelt
  • 7 The Sphere of Life as Sphere of Intercorporeity
  • 8 Towards a Philosophy in Double Dimensionality: Merleau-Ponty's Esthesiology
  • 6 The Institution of Nature
  • 1 Introduction: Phenomenological Ontology and the Institution of Nature
  • 2 Nature as Empirical and Transcendental Genesis
  • 3 Towards Totality: Perceptual Faith and the Flesh
  • 4 Tying It All Together: Nature as Leaf of Being
  • Bibliographical References and Works Cited
  • Index.