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Varying Form of Title: | Question of ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur and Jean-Luc Nancy
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ISBN: | 9780748637607 0748637605 1282136577 9781282136571 0748637591 9780748637591 0748671846 9780748671847 9786612136573 661213657X
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-262) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional understandings of the relationship between phenomenology and deconstruction through new readings of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul RicÅ₃ur 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, RicÅ₃ur 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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Other form: | Print version: Watkin, Christopher. Phenomenology or deconstruction?. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 9780748637591 0748637591
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Standard no.: | 9786612136573
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