Things Seen and Unseen

The Logic of Incarnation in Merleau-Ponty's Metaphysics of Flesh

AvOrion Edgar

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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A study of the theological roots of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings, and their fruitful implications for Christian thought.The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty was developing into a radical ontology when he died prematurely in 1961. Merleau-Ponty identified this nascent ontology as a philosophy of incarnation that carries us beyond entrenched dualisms in philosophical thinking about perception, the body, animality, nature, and God. What does this ontology have to do with the Catholic language of incarnation, sacrament, and logos on which it draws? In Things Seen and Unseen, Orion Edgar argues that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is dependent upon a logic of incarnation that finds its roots and fulfillment in theology, and that Merleau-Ponty drew from the Catholic faith of his youth. Merleau-Ponty's final abandonment of Christianity was based on an understanding of God that was ultimately Kantian rather than orthodox. As such, Merleau-Ponty's philosophy suggests a new kind of natural theology, one that grounds an account of God as ipsum esse subsistens in the questions produced by a phenomenological account of the world. This philosophical ontology also offers Christian theology a route away from dualistic compromises and back to its own deepest insight.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:James Clarke
Antal sidor:274
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9780227175941

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Orion Edgar (PhD, Nottingham) is Curate at Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire.

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Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is at last beginning to receive the attention it so richly deserves. It remains one of the most fertile sources in recent thought for reshaping the way we think about knowledge, time, and embodiment - a reshaping made all the more urgent by the political and ecological disasters of our times. It is also a style of thought with obvious theological resonance, a question that has long been in need of the kind of careful, insightful, and creative attention that Orion Edgar provides in this really admirable study, which brings Merleau-Ponty's analyses of bodily existence together with central themes of the Christian imagination - incarnation and sacrament - in a deeply original and fruitful way.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART ONE: Perception1: Merleau-Ponty's Embodied PhilosophyMerleau-Ponty's Gestalt PhenomenologyThe Unity of SensDepth and the Bodily Subject2: "Taste and See . . . ": Eating as PerceptionHunger, Appetite, and ImaginationTaste, Vision, and PerceptionEating and OntologyEating and Human NatureMIDDLE PART: The Crossing3: The Old OntologyThe Dominance of Linear PerspectiveScience and the ObserverThe Exclusion of Mind from NatureGestalt Ontology and Human ExceptionalismPART TWO: Ontology4: "Restoring Sight to the Blind"Towards a Renewed Understanding of Visual PerceptionSight as RepresentationGlancing at the WorldContents5: Institution and Incarnation in Merleau-Ponty's OntologyMerleau-Ponty and ChristianityThe Logic of InstitutionThe Anonymous Body and Incarnation6: Incarnation, Existence, and MusterionGod and NatureExistential MetaphysicsMerleau-Ponty's DoubtCreation and ParticipationThe Logic of IncarnationTranscendence and TransformationConclusionBibliographyIndex