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In Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life, renowned French
philosopher Renaud Barbaras aims to construct the basis for a
phenomenology of life. Called an introduction because it has to
deal with philosophical limits and presuppositions, it is much
more, as Barbaras investigates life in its phenomenological senses,
approached through the duality of its intransitive and transitive
senses. Originally published in French (Introduction a une
phenomenologie de la vie) Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life
first defines the problem of life phenomenologically, then studies
the failures of the phenomenological movement to adequately think
about life, and finally elaborates a new, original, and productive
approach to the problem. Combining original interpretations and
expert readings of philosophers such as Heidegger, Henry, Bergson,
and Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras offers a powerful and important
contribution to phenomenology and continental thought.
Desire and Distance constitutes an important new departure in
contemporary phenomenological thought, a rethinking and critique of
basic philosophical positions concerning the concept of perception
presented by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, though it departs in
significant and original ways from their work. Barbaras's overall
goal is to develop a philosophy of what "life" is-one that would do
justice to the question of embodiment and its role in perception
and the formation of the human subject. Barbaras posits that desire
and distance inform the concept of "life." Levinas identified a
similar structure in Descartes's notion of the infinite. For
Barbaras, desire and distance are anchored not in meaning, but in a
rethinking of the philosophy of biology and, in consequence,
cosmology. Barbaras elaborates and extends the formal structure of
desire and distance by drawing on motifs as yet unexplored in the
French phenomenological tradition, especially the notions of "life"
and the "life-world," which are prominent in the later Husserl but
also appear in non-phenomenological thinkers such as Bergson.
Barbaras then filters these notions (especially "life") through
Merleau-Ponty.
In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into
the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice
Merleau-Ponty (1908-61). Through a comprehensive analysis of the
three main phases of Merleau-Ponty's thinking and a thorough
knowledge of his many unpublished manuscripts, the author traces
how Merleau-Ponty's philosophy evolved and exposes the remarkable
coherence that structures it from within. Alloa teases out the
continuity of a motive that traverses the entire oeuvre as a common
thread. Merleau-Ponty struggled incessantly against any kind of
ideology of transparency, whether of the world, of the self, of
knowledge, or of the self's relation to others. Already translated
into several languages, Alloa's innovative reading of this
crucially important thinker shows why the issues Merleau-Ponty
raised are, more than ever, those of our time.
The notion of "flesh", such as Merlau-Ponty elaborates it, is
beginnig to occupy a central position in international
philosophical debates. In recent years, some of the most famous
contemporary thinkers have struggled with it. They were brought to
the flesh by its intrinsic interest as well as by the contemporary
reconception of our experience of the body and its relation to the
world. The dense and original articles in which this volume consist
attempt to return to the strictly philosophical coherence of the
notion, as well to the tightly woven network of references to the
flesh within Merlau-Ponty's thought, where it retains the eminent
place that we know it possesses. In addition, with this fourth
volume, Chiasmi International expands its field of investigation by
devoting a special section to the thought of the great Czech
phenomenologist Jan Patocka. Essays by Mauro Carbone, Renaud
Barbaras, Pierre Rodrigo, Etienne Bimbenet, Luigi Tarantino,
Leonard Lawlor, Jean-Noel Cueille, Claudio di Bitonto, Kym
Maclaren, Fabrice Colonna, Alessia Mascellani, Valentina Flak,
David Belot, Antonio Martone, Guy Deniau, Bruce Begout, Pierre
Cassou-Nogues, Justin Tauber.
Brought together here are most of the presentations made at the
Merleau-Ponty seminars which were held at the Husserl Archives,
Paris, in 1998-99 and 1999-2000. Some of the essays in English come
from the Twenty-second Annual International Meeting of the
Merleau-Ponty Circle which was held at Seattle University from the
18th to the 20th of September, 1997. And finally, there are a
certain number of important Italian contributions, among which is
the "Introduction" that Enzo Paci - one of the great figures in
Italian phenomenology - wrote in 1958 for the translation of In
Praise of Philosophy. This collection allows us to understand
better the genesis of Merleau-Ponty's ontology and, in particular,
the importance of his reflections on Nature. Texts by: Renaud
Barbaras, Etienne Bimbenet, Patrick Burke, Philippe Cabestan, Mauro
Carbone, Pierre Cassou-Nogues, Jean-Noel Cueille, Francesco Colli,
Francoise Dastur, Pascal Dupond, Fred Evans, Paolo Gambazzi,
Nicoletta Grillo, Galen A. Johnson, Samuel J. Julian, Antje Kapust,
Leonard Lawlor, Glen Mazis, Dorothea Olkowski, Guido D. Neri, Enzo
Paci, Alessandro Prandoni, Franck Robert, Michael Sanders, Jenny
Slatman, Ted Toadvine, Robert Vallier, Amedeo Vigorelli, Agata
Zielinski.
In Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life, renowned French
philosopher Renaud Barbaras aims to construct the basis for a
phenomenology of life. Called an introduction because it has to
deal with philosophical limits and presuppositions, it is much
more, as Barbaras investigates life in its phenomenological senses,
approached through the duality of its intransitive and transitive
senses. Originally published in French (Introduction a une
phenomenologie de la vie) Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life
first defines the problem of life phenomenologically, then studies
the failures of the phenomenological movement to adequately think
about life, and finally elaborates a new, original, and productive
approach to the problem. Combining original interpretations and
expert readings of philosophers such as Heidegger, Henry, Bergson,
and Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras offers a powerful and important
contribution to phenomenology and continental thought.
Generative Worlds. New Phenomenological Perspectives on Space and
Time accounts for the phenomenological concept of generativity. In
doing so, this book brings together several recent phenomenological
studies on space and time. Generative studies in phenomenology
propose new ways of conceiving space, time, and the relation
between them. Edited by Luz Ascarate and Quentin Gailhac, the
collection reveals new dimensions to topics such as the generation
of life, birth, historicity, intersubjectivity, narrativity,
institution, touching, and places, and in some cases, the
contributors invert the classical definitions of space and time.
These transformative readings are fruitful for the
interdisciplinary exchange between philosophy and fields such as
cosmology, psychology, and the social sciences. The contributors
ask if phenomenology reaches its own concreteness through the study
of generation and whether it manages to redefine certain dimensions
of space and time which, in other orientations of the Husserlian
method, remain too abstract and detached from the constitutive
becoming of experience.
In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into
the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice
Merleau-Ponty (1908-61). Through a comprehensive analysis of the
three main phases of Merleau-Ponty's thinking and a thorough
knowledge of his many unpublished manuscripts, the author traces
how Merleau-Ponty's philosophy evolved and exposes the remarkable
coherence that structures it from within. Alloa teases out the
continuity of a motive that traverses the entire oeuvre as a common
thread. Merleau-Ponty struggled incessantly against any kind of
ideology of transparency, whether of the world, of the self, of
knowledge, or of the self's relation to others. Already translated
into several languages, Alloa's innovative reading of this
crucially important thinker shows why the issues Merleau-Ponty
raised are, more than ever, those of our time.
Chiasmi International publishes for the first time two previously
unpublished working notes from Merleau-Ponty that date from 1959
and the first chapter of a previously unpublished text that
Simondon had written some years earlier: texts that testify to the
intersecting reflections that Merleau-Ponty and Simondon were
conducting on one of the most decisive themes for the philosophy of
the 20th Century: individuation. Some authors, who are among the
best known specialists in the question of individuation, make their
contributions bear on the subject matter of these texts, and on the
relations between the thought of Merleau-Ponty and that of
Simondon. The theme of the second section is the topic of life,
which runs across Merleau-Ponty's lectures on nature, and shows
itself to be perfectly complementary of that of the first one. The
contributions devoted to the second theme essentially come from the
Merleau-Ponty Circle (University of Western Ontario, 2003). Texts
by: Giuliano Antonello, Daniela Calabro, Mauro Carbone, Fabrice
Colonna, Miguel De Beistegui, Emmanuel De Saint Aubert, Helen A.
Fielding, Paolo Gambazzi, Jacques Garelli, Xavier Guchet, Mariana
Larison, Leonard Lawlor, Kym Maclaren, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, David
Morris, Mario Neve, Felix O Murchadha, Franck Robert, Davide
Scarso, Gilbert Simondon, Jenny Slatman, Ted Toadvine, Robert
Vallier, Veniero Venier.
English summary: The universal a priori of the correlation between
the transcendent being and its modes of subjective data draw
minimal part of any approach that claims authorship on
phenomenology. This is to show that a rigorous analysis of the
correlation deploys itself necessarily on three levels and that
phenomenology is thus destined to transcend itself into a cosmology
and metaphysics. A first level of analysis, mainly
phenomenological, establishes that the pure transcendence of the
world is given to a subject whose mode of existence is a movement
that we characterize as desire. However, the correlation also
presupposes a common, bipolar mode of being, the foundation of the
belonging of the subject to the world. As far as the subject is
moving, the world to which it belongs must itself be understood as
a procedural reality our movement proceeds from the archimovement
the world; the dynamic phenomenology refers to a phenomenological
dynamic which stands for cosmology. French description: L'a priori
universel de la correlation entre l'etant transcendant et ses modes
de donnee subjectifs dessine le cadre minimal de toute demarche qui
se revendique de la phenomenologie. Il s'agit ici de montrer qu'une
analyse rigoureuse de la correlation se deploie necessairement a
trois niveaux et que la phenomenologie est ainsi vouee a se
depasser elle-meme vers une cosmologie et une metaphysique. Un
premier niveau d'analyse, proprement phenomenologique, permet
d'etablir que la transcendance pure du monde se donne a un sujet
dont le mode d'exister est un certain mouvement, que nous
caracterisons comme desir. Cependant, la correlation presuppose
egalement un mode d'etre commun aux deux poles, fondement de
l'appartenance du sujet au monde. Pour autant que le sujet est
mouvement, le monde auquel il appartient doit lui-meme etre compris
comme une realite processuelle: notre mouvement procede de
l'archimouvement du monde; la phenomenologie dynamique renvoie a
une dynamique phenomenologique qui est synonyme d'une cosmologie.
Des lors, la difference du sujet, sans laquelle il n'y a pas de
correlation, ne peut que correspondre a une scission, plus
originaire encore, qui affecte le proces meme de la manifestation
sans neanmoins en proceder. Cette scission au coeur de
l'archi-mouvement doit etre comprise comme un archi-evenement:
celui-ci fait l'objet d'une metaphysique en un sens tres singulier,
qui recueille l'ultime condition de possibilite de la
phenomenologie elle-meme.
The title of the third volume of Chiasmi International deliberately
reverses the tutle of one of Merleau-Ponty's last courses.
Moreover, two unpublished notes concerning music make up the
unusual opening of this volume. In these two ways, we are intending
to emphasize that more than ever we must pay attention to
Merleau-Ponty's particular tendency to seek the reason of (his)
philosophy in non-philosophy. This attention is exactly what serves
as the guiding thread throughout the ssays collected here, some of
which have been solicited from the partecipants of the fourth
"International Symposium of Phenomenology" (Perugia, 2000) while
others were presented in the third seminar on Merleau-Ponty at the
Husserl Archives in Paris (2000-2001). Texts by: Daniela Calabro,
Mauro Carbone, Fabio Ciaramelli, Francesco Colli, Duane H. Davis,
Wayne Froman, Michael Gendre, Xavier Guchet, Alexandre Hubeny, Kurt
Dauer Keller, Enrica Lisciani-Petrini, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ann
V. Murphy, Andrea Pinotti, Mario Todoro Ramirez Cobian, Myriam
Revault D'Allones, Calvin O. Schrag, Clara da Silva-Charrak, Davide
Scarso, Cecilia Sjoholm, Jenny Slatman, Ted Toadvine, Robert
Vallier.
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