Mead and Merleau-Ponty: Toward A Common VisionThis book unites George Herbert Mead and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in a shared rejection of substance philosophy as well as spectator theory of knowledge, in favor of a focus on the ultimacy of temporal process and the constitutive function of social praxis. Both Mead and Merleau-Ponty return to the richness of lived experience within nature, and both lead to radically new, insightful visions of the nature of selfhood, language, freedom, and time itself, as well as of the nature of the relation between the so-called "tensions" of appearance and reality, sensation and object, the individual and the community, freedom and constraint, and continuity and creativity. |
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Mead and Merleau-Ponty: Toward A Common Vision Sandra B. Rosenthal,Patrick L. Bourgeois Limited preview - 1991 |
Mead and Merleau-Ponty: Toward A Common Vision Sandra B. Rosenthal,Patrick L. Bourgeois No preview available - 1991 |
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abstract action activity attitudes awareness Bergson biological chapter character Claude Lefort cognitive common world concrete subject consciousness constitution contact experience context corporeal creativity dialogical dimension discussion will turn dynamics emergence ence enological environment Evanston existential expression field focus freedom functional George Herbert Mead gesture gives rise grasped human existence I-me Ibid immediacy individual intentions interpretation intersubjective involves language lived body lived experience Maurice Merleau-Ponty Mead and Merleau-Ponty Mead holds Mead's understanding meaning Merleau metaphysics Mind nature Northwestern University novelty object one's ongoing organism Paul Ricoeur perceived world perspective phase Phenomenology of Perception Philosophy possible pragmatic pre-personal precisely Primacy of Perception psychical reality reconstructive reflection reification relation relativity theory Ricoeur rience role taking rooted scientific method sedimentation seen Selected Writings sensation sense significance situation social Society specious present speech stimuli Structure of Behavior temporal thing tion transcendence truth ture unity vital intentionality