Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature

Name: Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature | A Return to Elemental Symbolism
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A Return to Elemental Symbolism

Taylor Knight(Autor*in)

Edinburgh University Press

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Erschienen am 31. August 2024

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Return to the Element
1. The warp and woof of a moment
2. From Socrates to Plato and back
3. Flesh as element: From Sartre to Bachelard
4. Elemental powers and the remains of nature
5. The injection of the elemental into phenomenology
6. 'Germ of the endangered world': The ark of existence
7. Embodied by forgetting: The other side of the light
8. Aquatic (non)being in the perceptual cosmogony
9. A Merleau-Pontian itinerary
1 The Powers of Becoming: Early Greek Thought and Contemporary Biology in Merleau-Ponty's Elemental Ontology
1. Ionian physis and modern nature
2. From Gestalt to element
3. Element as metastable form
4. Endogenous development as elemental emergence
5. From Sartre to Heraclitus
6. The mirror of nature
2 The Correlation of Sensation: From Act to Power
1. Correlation as act: The soul
2. Correlation as power: The flesh
3. Finality and flesh: Aristotle in Merleau-Ponty's nature course
3 The Elemental Bond: Surpassing Phenomenological Atomism
1. 'Les petits êtres sauvages': The things reconstituted
2. 'Seeing as': Return to the things themselves
3. 'Seeing from': Return to the elements themselves
4. 'Données brutes' and 'être brut': The elemental turn
4 Cosmogonic Elementals in Phenomenology: From Husserl and Heidegger to Levinas and Merleau-Ponty
1. Phenomenology and cosmogony
2. The marriage of earth and sky: Heidegger and the horizon of manifestation
3. The nocturns of existence: Levinas and the absence of horizon
4. 'La mer, la mer, toujours recommencée':38 Merleau-Ponty and the aquatic milieu
5. 'For water to become earth is to die':45 Ontogenesis as the desiccation of being
6. Primordial depths and the latency of being
5 The Savagery of the Symbol: The Barbarian Principle and Elemental Negation
1. Symbol as Naturphilosophie concept
2. Symbolic replication and the birth of the gods
3. Nature against correlation
4. Unmotivated upsurge: The freedom of nature and the primordial negation
5. The interiority of nature: From representation to repetition
6. Symbol and barbarian principle
6 Symbolics of the Flesh: From Tautegory to Chiasm
1. Sharing the visible world: Vision as paradigm of chiasm
2. Plunging perception into the elemental past: Time as paradigm of chiasm
3. From collision to sensation: Symbol as chiastic relation
4. The radically incomplete: Symbol and relationship
5. Contaminated by nature: Symbolic repetition and viral replication62
7 What the Sea Left Behind: The Element as the Unconscious
1. A divergence and a meeting point: Freud and Schelling on the unconscious
2. Year zero: Two new philosophies of consciousness
3. 'Perception is the true unconscious' (1): Unconscious as body memory
4. 'Perception is the true unconscious' (2): Unconscious as perceptual link
5. Symbol as 'most true to perception'
6. Drive and instinct: Symbolism in the human and the animal
7. The meaning of symbol in Merleau-Ponty's analysis of instinct
8. 'Symbol is the true unconscious': The irrational and the ambiguous
Conclusion: The Dream of Nature
Works Cited
Index

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