{"product_id":"first-nature-the-problem-of-nature-in-the-phenomenology-of-merleau-ponty-9789004548930","title":"First Nature. The Problem of Nature in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores a radically integrative phenomenology of nature through the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By revisiting novel empirical findings in the sciences and advances in scientific methods and concepts, Merleau-Ponty leads us to rediscover a first nature right at the  heart of the subject. Alessio Rotundo traces and documents the presence of a double meaning of nature affecting Merleau-Ponty’s analyses across foundational aspects of human experience: sense perception, organic development and behavior, cognition, language, and history. Physical, biological, and psychological processes in nature are not merely scientific data; they provide the evidence for another, more primordial sense of nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations    Introduction: Stating the Problem   1 Preliminary Remarks   2 Historical Contextualization   3 Renewed Setting of the Problem    1 Natura Sub Specie Structurae   1 Science between Technocracy and Aesthetics   2 The Disinterested and the Interested Onlooker   3 Naturizing and Naturized Consciousness   4 Phenomenology between Husserl and Merleau-Ponty    2 Pathway to First Nature   Operative Intentionality from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty   1 Introduction   2 Phenomenology as Redoing of Transcendental Philosophy   3 Cartesian “Realism”   4 The Genetic Turn in Phenomenology   5 Operative Intentionality   6 Brief Methodic Reflection on the “Idea of Being” in Phenomenology   7 The Prejudice of the World   8 Operative Intentionality as Temporalizing   9 The Project of the Phenomenology of Perception as Enquiry into Operative Intentionality   10 The Discovery of Contingency and Transcendental Philosophy: Descartes and Kant   11 The Body Schema: Phenomenology of Perception I   12 The Notion of Spatial Level: Phenomenology of Perception II   13 Merleau-Ponty and Kant on Space    3 Orders of Experience   1 Introduction: The Eidetic of Experience and Language   2 Approaches to Language   3 The Act of Speech   4 Language as Ontological Experience   5 Speaking of Fundamentals: The Promise of Language   6 Language and the Lifeworld: General Points from Phenomenology   7 The Problem of Einströmen   8 The Modal Ontology of the World   9 History in Lifeworld Phenomenology    4 Mundus Sensibilis   Structural Ontology between Merleau-Ponty and the New Philosophy of Science   1 Introduction   2 Ontic Structural Realism   3 Syntactic and Semantic Views   4 Invariance between Physics and Phenomenology   5 Physics Deformalized   6 Observation and Objectivation   7 The Passage of Nature   8 Natural Dynamis between Physics and Perception   9 The Praxis of Nature, or What the Things Do    5 Nature and Logos    1 Introduction: Animal Nature   2 Biology and Ontology    3 Organic Totality   4 The Ontology of the Umwelt: Uexküll’s Notion of Umwelt   5 Behavior, Consciousness, and World    6 The Bivalent Ontology of the Umwelt   7 The Sphere of Life as Sphere of Intercorporeity   8 Towards a Philosophy in Double Dimensionality: Merleau-Ponty’s Esthesiology    6 The Institution of Nature   1 Introduction: Phenomenological Ontology and the Institution of Nature   2 Nature as Empirical and Transcendental Genesis   3 Towards Totality: Perceptual Faith and the Flesh   4 Tying It All Together: Nature as Leaf of Being    Bibliographical References and Works Cited  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210869498199,"sku":"9789004548930","price":87.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/first-nature-the-problem-of-nature-in-the-phenomenology-of-merleau-ponty-9789004548930","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}