Christopher Watkin

Phenomenology or Deconstruction? (eBook, PDF)

The Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur and Jean-Luc Nancy

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Produktbeschreibung

Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional understandings of the relationship between phenomenology and deconstruction through new readings of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ric ur and Jean-Luc Nancy. A constant dialogue with Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes provides the impetus to establishing a new understanding of 'being' and 'presence' that exposes significant blindspots inherent in traditional readings of both phenomenology and deconstruction.In reproducing neither a stock phenomenological reaction to deconstruction nor the routine deconstructive reading of phenomenology, Christopher Watkin provides a fresh assessment of the possibilities for the future of phenomenology, along with a new reading of the deconstructive legacy. Through detailed studies of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Ric ur and Nancy, he shows how a phenomenological tradition much wider and richer than Husserlian or Heideggerean thought alone can take account of Derrida's critique of ontology and yet still hold a commitment to the ontological. This new reading of being and presence fundamentally re-draws our understanding of the relation of deconstruction and phenomenology, and provides the first sustained discussion of the possibilities and problems for any future 'deconstructive phenomenology'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748637607
• Artikelnr.: 38226153

Autorenporträt

Christopher Watkin is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Monash University. His previous publications include Phenomenology or Deconstruction?, Difficult Atheism, and French Philosophy Today.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Problem of Relation
1. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Perception and Ontology
2. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Language and Ontology
3. Paul Ricoeur: Selfhood and Ontology
4. Paul Ricoeur: Justice and Ontology
5. Jean-Luc Nancy: Sense and Ontology
6. Jean-Luc Nancy: Plurality and Ontology
Conclusion: Ontology and 'Deconstructive Phenomenology'
Bibliography
Index.