Selfhood and Appearing
The Intertwining
Seiten
2018
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-37583-3 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-37583-3 (ISBN)
Selfhood and Appearing explores how, as embodied subjects, we are in the very world that we consciously internalize. Employing the insights of Merleau-Ponty and Patočka, this volume examines how the intertwining of both senses of “being-in” (physical and conscious) constitutes our reality.
What is the relation between our selfhood and appearing? Our embodiment positions us in the world, situating us as an object among its visible objects. Yet, by opening and shutting our eyes, we can make the visible world appear and disappear—a fact that convinces us that the world is in us. Thus, we have to assert with Merleau-Ponty that we are in the world that is in us: the two are intertwined. Author James Mensch employs the insights of Jan Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology to understand this double relationship of being-in. In this volume, he shows how this relation constitutes the reality of our selfhood, shaping our social and political interactions as well as the violence that constantly threatens to undermine them.
What is the relation between our selfhood and appearing? Our embodiment positions us in the world, situating us as an object among its visible objects. Yet, by opening and shutting our eyes, we can make the visible world appear and disappear—a fact that convinces us that the world is in us. Thus, we have to assert with Merleau-Ponty that we are in the world that is in us: the two are intertwined. Author James Mensch employs the insights of Jan Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology to understand this double relationship of being-in. In this volume, he shows how this relation constitutes the reality of our selfhood, shaping our social and political interactions as well as the violence that constantly threatens to undermine them.
James Mensch, Ph.D. (1976), University of Toronto, is Professor of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He has published twelve monographs (including Patočka’s Asubjective Phenomenology (Königshausen & Neumann, 2016) and Levinas’ Existential Analytic (Northwestern University Press, 2015). A member of Central European Institute of Philosophy, he has published over a hundred articles in books and journals.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.09.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology ; 17 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 686 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-37583-X / 900437583X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-37583-3 / 9789004375833 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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