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Examines key moments in the development of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of nature while roughly following the historical sequence of his major works. This book discusses the role of reflection in Phenomenology of Perception, as it negotiates the area between nature's own 'self-unfolding' and human subjectivity.

Table of Contents
List of Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Renewing the Philosophy of Nature; 1. Nature as Gestalt and Melody; The Structures of Behavior; Physical, Vital, and Mental Gestalts; The Problem of Perception; The Historicity of Consciousness; 2. Radical Reflection and the Resistance of Things; Perceptual dialogue and the "Natural Self"; Radical Reflection and Phenomenology; The Nature of Reflection; 3. Animality; Ontological Exceptionalism in Phenomenology; Human-Animal Intertwining; 4. The Space of Intentionality and the Orientation of Being; 5. The Human-Nature Chiasm; The Chiasm of Sentient and Sensible; Ontological Diplopia and the Phenomenological Reduction; The Duplicity of the Thing; Good Error and the Expression of Nature.

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810125995, 978-0810125995
      ISBN10: 0810125994
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      Book Synopsis
      Examines key moments in the development of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of nature while roughly following the historical sequence of his major works. This book discusses the role of reflection in Phenomenology of Perception, as it negotiates the area between nature's own 'self-unfolding' and human subjectivity.

      Table of Contents
      List of Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Renewing the Philosophy of Nature; 1. Nature as Gestalt and Melody; The Structures of Behavior; Physical, Vital, and Mental Gestalts; The Problem of Perception; The Historicity of Consciousness; 2. Radical Reflection and the Resistance of Things; Perceptual dialogue and the "Natural Self"; Radical Reflection and Phenomenology; The Nature of Reflection; 3. Animality; Ontological Exceptionalism in Phenomenology; Human-Animal Intertwining; 4. The Space of Intentionality and the Orientation of Being; 5. The Human-Nature Chiasm; The Chiasm of Sentient and Sensible; Ontological Diplopia and the Phenomenological Reduction; The Duplicity of the Thing; Good Error and the Expression of Nature.

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