Merleau-Ponty between philosophy and symbolism : the matrixed ontology /

Merleau-Ponty between philosophy and symbolism : the matrixed ontology /

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Author / Creator:	Kaushik, Rajiv, author.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Description:	xxix, 171 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
Subject:	Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, -- 1908-1961. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, -- 1908-1961. Ontology. Identity (Philosophical concept) Identity (Philosophical concept) Ontology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11986838

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ISBN:	9781438476759 1438476752 9781438476773
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-165) and index.
Summary:	"Merleau-Ponty states in his Institution and Passivity lectures that he wants to "consider criticism itself as a symbolic form" as opposed to doing "a philosophy of symbolic form." This statement seems counterintuitive for Merleau-Ponty, who has been called "the philosopher of the sensible." In this book, Kaushik investigates this question, arguing that Merleau-Ponty has raised the stakes of his ontology such that it is no longer a matter of finding a solution to the difference between "the real and the fictive" but rather, of constellating and matrixing them. This ontological matrix amounts to a psychoanalysis of the philosophy of identity. Kaushik argues that philosophies of reflection, in which reflection seeks to coincide with its origins, are in fact uncritical because they miss the form of differentiation that limits them. His analyses of the matrices between space-imagination, light-dark, awake-asleep, repression-expression, etc., subvert these philosophies and reveal the symbolic form in terms of its lack of precise origin or destination. Drawing from recently published course materials of Merleau-Ponty's, and attentive to his reliance on literary phrases for phenomenological insights, Kaushik brings out the living force of Merleau-Ponty's thought and develops his radical insight of the primacy of the symbolic form, even in an ontology that claims to be about the sensible and its elements"--

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