| ISBN13: | 9783031687006 |
| ISBN10: | 30316870011 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 296 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 1 Illustrations, black & white; 1 Illustrations, color |
| 700 |
Intertwinings
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This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary phenomenologist James R. Mensch, exploring his oeuvre and thought. Mensch's extensive body of work spans several decades, often concretely engaging with three intersecting conditions of dialogue: Alterity, Intersubjectivity, and Embodiment. By intertwining these concepts, Mensch exposes the ever-threatening soliloquy of modern reason, calling upon us to deconstruct the conflation of human freedom with sovereignty that figures at the core of Western political thought and practice. The contributors to this book pick up these themes and explore the fragility and potentiality of our conceptions of discourse, dialogue, and the political. Moreover, and in applying Mensch's idea of a post-foundational phenomenology, this anthology honors Mensch's expansive work, which spans key thinkers such as Husserl, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, and Patočka, and delves into subjects ranging from perception and time to ethics and ecology. The volume is meant for students and researchers and explores these three interwoven conditions in various ways.
This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary phenomenologist James R. Mensch, exploring his oeuvre and thought. Mensch's extensive body of work spans several decades, often concretely engaging with three intersecting conditions of dialogue: Alterity, Intersubjectivity, and Embodiment. By intertwining these concepts, Mensch exposes the ever-threatening soliloquy of modern reason, calling upon us to deconstruct the conflation of human freedom with sovereignty that figures at the core of Western political thought and practice. The contributors to this book pick up these themes and explore the fragility and potentiality of our conceptions of discourse, dialogue, and the political. Moreover, and in applying Mensch's idea of a post-foundational phenomenology, this anthology honors Mensch's expansive work, which spans key thinkers such as Husserl, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, and Patočka, and delves into subjects ranging from perception and time to ethics and ecology. The volume is meant for students and researchers and explores these three interwoven conditions in various ways.
1 On Exploring the Intertwining: Engaging with the Thoughts and Writings of James Mensch.- Part I Reconfiguring Subjectivity.- 2 Another Beginning: On Birth, Childhood, and the Existential State of Being Human.- 3 Jan Patočka and James Mensch on World and Movement.- 4 The Path of Phenomenology: James Mensch and Jan Patočka on Subjectivity.- Part II Unthinking Embodiment and its Implications.- 5 Self-Identity from the Perspective of the Body.- 6 Paradigm Changes in Times of Pandemics, Embodied Vulnerability, and Responsibility.- 7 Merleau-Ponty?s Parallel Between Art and Philosophy: The Case of Poetry from Baudelaire and Akhmatova.- Part III Unfolding the Phenomenology of Time.- 8 Ego Splitting and Intuitive Presentifications.- 9 Intersubjective Constitution of Time in the C-Manuscripts.- 10 In the Flow of Experience: Genetic Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis Toward a New Subjectivity Model.- Part IV Probing the Foundations of the Ethico-Political.- 11 Empathy and Trust as Different Foundations of Ethics.- 12 Living In: A Sketch for an Oikology.- 13 Pandemic Times and James Mensch?s Political Philosophy.- Part V On Violence and the Wager of Dialogue.- 14 Shame: Experiencing, Enduring and Resisting the Violence of Vulnerability.- 15 Jan Patočka on War: From Hysterical Men to the Solidarity of the Shaken.- 16 The Affective Ambiguity of Violence: A Study in the Phenomenology of Spectacular Violence.- 17 Epilogue.
