Time, Memory, Institution: Merleau-Ponty's New Ontology of Self (Volume 47) (Series In Continental Thought) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821421085 ISBN 13: 9780821421086

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This collection is the first extended investigation of the relation between time and memory in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s thought as a whole as well as the first to explore in depth the significance of his concept of institution. It brings the French phenomenologist’s views on the self and ontology into contemporary focus. Time, Memory, Institution argues that the self is not a self-contained or self-determining identity, as such, but is gathered out of a radical openness to what is not self, and that it gathers itself in a time that is not merely a given dimension, but folds back upon, gathers, and institutes itself.

Access to previously unavailable texts, in particular Merleau-Ponty’s lectures on institution and expression, has presented scholars with new resources for thinking about time, memory, and history. These essays represent the best of this new direction in scholarship; they deepen our understanding of self and world in relation to time and memory; and they give occasion to reexamine Merleau-Ponty’s contribution and relevance to contemporary Continental philosophy.

This volume is essential reading for scholars of phenomenology and French philosophy, as well as for the many readers across the arts, humanities, and social sciences who continue to draw insight and inspiration from Merleau-Ponty.

Contributors: Elizabeth Behnke, Edward Casey, Véronique Fóti, Donald Landes, Kirsten Jacobson, Galen Johnson, Michael Kelly, Scott Marratto, Glen Mazis, Caterina Rea, John Russon, Robert Vallier, and Bernhard Waldenfels

About this title

About the Author

David Morris is a professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and is the author of The Sense of Space and numerous articles and book chapters on Merleau-Ponty and phenomenology.

Kym Maclaren is an associate professor of philosophy at Ryerson University. She holds a doctorate from Pennsylvania State University and has published several articles and book chapters on Merleau-Ponty and issues of selfhood, embodiment, and intersubjectivity.

Review

“Assembling some of the most important Merleau-Ponty scholars working today, Time, Memory, Institution may be the most important volume on Merleau-Ponty published in many, many years.”—Leonard Lawlor, author of Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy

“The rich and impressive essays in Time, Memory, Institution make a new and significant contribution to the field, dealing with works of Merleau-Ponty’s that have only recently become available in English.”—Jack Reynolds, author of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0821421085
• ISBN 13: 9780821421086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Morris David, Maclaren Kym