Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791442780 ISBN 13: 9780791442784

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1999

Synopsis

Explores Merleau-Ponty's approach of taking the phenomenon of the body out of the dualistic constraints of interior and exterior, and the consequences thereof.

This book demonstrates how Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the continuity of inner and psychological life (interiority) and the material world (exteriority) has broad implications for philosophy, the physical and human sciences, and health studies. By taking the phenomenon of the body out of the dualistic constraints of interior and exterior, idealism and empiricism, Merleau-Ponty shows us the possibility of a fresh vantage point for future research and therapeutic application, linking philosophy more closely to the study of nature, the psyche, and social phenomena. Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World is proof of the power and creative energy of Merleau-Ponty's thought.

Contributors include Edward S. Casey; Helen A. Fielding; Elizabeth Grosz; Lawrence Hass; Galen A. Johnson; Nobuo Kazashi; Alphonso Lingis; Glen A. Mazis; James Morley; Dorothea Olkowski; David E. Pettigrew; James Phillips; Michael B. Smith; Gail Weiss; and Wilhelm S. Wurtzer.

About this title

About the Author

Dorothea Olkowski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. She is the author of The Ruin of Representation, Gilles Deleuze and Feminism and Creative Life and is coeditor, with Constantin V. Boundas, of Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy. James Morley is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Richmond College, The American International University in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791442780
• ISBN 13: 9780791442784
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 283
• Editor: Olkowski Dorothea, Morley James