Merleau-Ponty's conception of dialectics in phenomenology of perception Pollard, Christopher 2016, Merleau-Ponty's conception of dialectics in phenomenology of perception, Critical horizons, vol. 17, no. 3-4, pp. 358-375, doi: 10.1080/14409917.2016.1190180. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Merleau-Ponty's conception of dialectics in phenomenology of perception Author(s) Pollard, Christopher Journal name Critical horizons Volume number 17 Issue number 3-4 Start page 358 End page 375 Total pages 18 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication Abingdon, Eng. Publication date 2016-10-14 ISSN 1440-9917 1568-5160 Keyword(s) lived body existential lifeworld ambiguity being-in-the-world Summary Although the fact that Merleau-Ponty has a dialectical approach in Phenomenology of Perception has been discussed in recent Anglophone readings, there has not been an explicit clarification as to how his varying usages of the term hang together. Given his repeated references to Hegel and to dialectics, coupled with the fact that dialectics are not part of the Husserlian phenomenology or Heideggerean existentialism from which Merleau-Ponty draws so much, the question of just what he does with the idea of dialectics presents itself. In this paper I argue that, in Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty saw Hegel as providing a model for the conception of rationality and meaning that must underpin the existentialist response to the problems bequeathed him by Husserlian phenomenology: namely, the problems of embodiment, perception and the constitution of the world. In connection with this, I suggest an interpretation of Merleau-Ponty's “existential dialectics” that focuses on his three principal uses of the term: 1) a “dialectic of objective thought,” 2) a set of existential-dialectical categories intended to capture the ontological structure of the “body-subject” as “being-in-the-world,” and 3) a dialectic at the cultural level concerning others and history. Language eng DOI 10.1080/14409917.2016.1190180 Field of Research 220310 Phenomenology 220299 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields not elsewhere classified 220399 Philosophy not elsewhere classified 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30088166 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 21 Oct 2016, 14:08:56 EST Wed, 30 Nov 2016, 14:44:33 EST Thu, 01 Dec 2016, 04:01:01 EST Thu, 01 Dec 2016, 05:07:07 EST Thu, 01 Dec 2016, 11:41:43 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 101 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 30 Nov 2016, 14:44:33 EST

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