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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964255103321

Autore

Hamrick William S

Titolo

Nature and logos : a Whiteheadian key to Merleau-Ponty's fundamental thought / / William S. Hamrick,Jan Van der Veken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011

ISBN

9781438436180

1438436181

9781441696847

1441696849

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VekenJan van der

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Ontology

Philosophy of nature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""NATURE AND LOGOS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1. NATURE AS A PHENOMENON""; ""2. FROM DUALISM TO A TWOFOLD ONTOLOGY""; ""3. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH*""; ""4. LOGOS ENDIATHETOS AND LOGOS PROFORIKOS""; ""5. THE SCHELLINGIAN AND BERGSONIAN HERITAGE""; ""6. NATURE AND LIFE""; ""7. BEYOND THE LIMITS OF PHENOMENOLOGY""; ""8. COM-PREHENDING THE FLESH""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first booklength account of how Maurice Merleau-Ponty used certain texts by Alfred North Whitehead to develop an ontology based on nature, and how he could have used other Whitehead texts that he did not know in order to complete his last ontology. This account is enriched by several of Merleau-Ponty's unpublished writings not previously available in English, by the first detailed treatment of certain works by F.W.J. Schelling in the course of showing how they exerted a substantial influence on both Merleau-Ponty and Whitehead, and by the first extensive discussion of Merleau-Ponty's interest in the Stoics's notion of the twofold logos—the logos endiathetos and the



logos proforikos. This book provides a thorough exploration of the consonance between these two philosophers in their mutual desire to overcome various bifurcations of nature, and of nature from spirit, that continued to haunt philosophy and science since the 17th-century.