Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being
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Jean-Luc Nancy
Martin Heidegger
materiality
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
object-oriented ontology
ontology
phenomenology
Rene Descartes
speculative realism
the body
the Great Outdoors
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- ISBN 9781474492430
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Brings a new dimension to thinking about philosophical materialism and realism in the wake of phenomenology and deconstruction
Challenges speculative realism's critique of contemporary Continental philosophy as correlationism
Uses Merleau-Ponty and Nancy to develop an ontology that respects the materiality and exteriority of what exists without reinstating the mind world divide
Shows how Merleau-Ponty and Nancy overcome the Cartesian presupposition at work in current realist appeal to step out of our own thoughts to reach the 'great outdoors'
Provides an alternative to the phenomenological reduction of being to sense
Defends anthropomorphism as a way of overcoming the Cartesian Sartrian ontology of the object
Marie-Eve Morin proposes a reinterpretation of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and Nancy from the perspective of realist and object-oriented tendencies in contemporary philosophy. The realist critique of subject-centred anthropocentric thinking indicates the danger, inherent in the phenomenological approach, of reducing being to sense. Morin demonstrates how Merleau-Ponty and Nancy avoid this pitfall through the development of ontologies that respect the materiality and exteriority of what exists without reaffirming the Cartesian divide between mind and world.
Morin orients her analysis around three ideas where Merleau-Ponty's and Nancy's thinking intersect: Body, Thing, Being. Each time, she tracks the role of difference or spacing within sensing and sense-making. She concludes that their respective conceptions as encroachment and promiscuity or as unpassable limit may provide counterweights to each other.
Marie-Eve Morin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She is the author of many articles on Derrida, Heidegger, Nancy, Sartre, Latour, and Sloterdijk. She is also the author of Jean-Luc Nancy (Polity, 2012) and is the co-editor, with Peter Gratton, of The Nancy Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Politics, Art, and Sense (SUNY, 2012). She is editor of Continental Realism and its Discontents (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
