contemporary merleau-ponty intersections contributions

books:

Rereading Merleau-Ponty: Essays Beyond the Continental-Analytic Divide

Humanity Books, 2000

Drawing from the recent surge of scholarship on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this wide-ranging anthology demonstrates the breadth of interests encompassed by this remarkable philosopher's thought. More importantly, the plurality of perspectives here represented suggests that Merleau-Ponty's work has the potential to transcend the divide between 'continental' and 'analytic' (or Anglo-American) philosophy, two traditions that have ...

On Language: Analytic, Continental, and Historical Contributions
Jon Burmeister and Mark Sentesy

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

Language was at the heart of philosophical inquiry for Plato and Aristotle, and in contemporary discussion it is no less central. In addition to the history of philosophy's extensive investigations of language, analytic and continental philosophy too have focused intensively on the matter. But since most inquiries into language remain enclosed in their own methodology, terminology, and tradition, the multiplicity of approaches is often ...

Beyond the Philosopher's Fear (Intersections: Continental and Analytic Philosophy)
Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey

Ashgate, 2007

Based on a detailed analysis of gender in Stanley Cavell's treatment of the skeptical problem, this book addresses the relationship between gender and religion in modern skepticism. Engaging in dialogue with Julia Kristeva's philosophy, Viefhues claims that a religious problem underlies Cavell's understanding of the feminine. The feminine which the skeptic fears is construed as a placeholder for the beyond, marking the transcendence of our ...

Heidegger's "Being and Time" The Analytic of Dasein as Fundamental Ontology
Joseph J. Kockelmans

Univ Pr of Amer, 1989

"Being and Time" is arguably the foremost work on ontology this century. This study locates the main themes of the book in their historical context and explains the terminology and background information which is required for a proper understanding of it.

The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements Between Analytic and Continental Thought

State University of New York Press, 2004

Demonstrates that the divisions between analytic and continental philosophy are being replaced by a transcontinental desire to address common problems in a common idiom.

Either Kierkegaard / Or Nietzsche: Moral Philosophy in a New Key (Intersections: Continental and Analytic ...
Tom P. S. Angier

Ashgate Publishing, 2006

Arguably Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche are the two most significant moral philosophers of the nineteenth century, their works showing a remarkably trenchant and penetrating awareness of key ethical issues, while demonstrating a stylistic flair that is rare in philosophical writing. Angier argues that, despite the perceived stylistic opacity of these thinkers, their work does admit of comparison and rigorous analytic scrutiny which in ...

Against Theory: Continental and Analytic Challenges in Moral Philosophy
Dwight Furrow

Routledge, 1995

Against Theory is unique in that it puts disparate thinkers from both the analytic and continental traditions into conversation on a central topic in moral philosophy. It also addresses the issue of the impact of postmodernism on ethics, unlike most of the literature on postmodernism which tends to deal with social and political issues rather than ethics. Dwight Furrow's Against Theory is a spirited assessment of two main alternatives ...

A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy

1 review

Humanity Books, 2003

Crossing the Divide
One of the widest gulfs in contemporary western philosophy is the dividing line separating English analytical philosophy, exemplified by writers like John Searle or Willard Quine, from Continental philosophy, represented by thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre or Michel Foucault. If you were trained in one of these traditions, you probably did not read works by the other. There certainly are huge ...

Time and Death: Heidegger's Analysis of Finitude (Intersections Continental and Analytic Philosophy)

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Carol J. White, Mark Ralkowski

Ashgate Publishing, 2005

A perfect complement to Dreyfus' Being in the World
This book complements Dreyfus' excellent 'Being in the World' perfectly. I can't think of a better pair of commentaries to use in a seminar on Heidegger. Whereas Dreyfus concentrates mostly on Division One of 'Being and Time', White aims to interpret all of Being and Time, and especially Division Two, in the light of Heidegger's later thought. This is exactly the sort of work many ...