Postfoundational Phenomenology: Husserlian Reflections on Presence and Embodiment - Brossura

Mensch, James Richard

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ISBN 10: 0271022914 ISBN 13: 9780271022918

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2003

Riassunto

This book offers a fresh look at Edmund Husserl’s philosophy as a nonfoundational approach to understanding the self as an embodied presence.

Contrary to the conventional view of Husserl as carrying on the Cartesian tradition of seeking a trustworthy foundation for knowledge in the "pure" observations of a disembodied ego, James Mensch introduces us to the Husserl who, anticipating the later investigations of Merleau-Ponty, explored how the body functions to determine our self-presence, our freedom, and our sense of time. The result is a concept of selfhood that allows us to see how consciousness’s arising from sensuous experiences follows from the temporal features of embodiment.

From this understanding of what is crucial to Husserl’s phenomenology, the book draws the implications for language and ethics, comparing Husserl’s ideas with those of Derrida on language and with those of Heidegger and Levinas on responsibility. Paradoxically, it is these postmodernists who are shown to be extending the logic of foundationalism to its ultimate extreme, whereas Husserl can be seen as leading the way beyond modernity to a nonfoundational account of the self and its world.

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James Richard Mensch is Professor of Philosophy at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the author of Knowing and Being: A Postmodern Reversal (Penn State, 1996).

James Richard Mensch is Professor of Philosophy at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the author of Knowing and Being: A Postmodern Reversal (Penn State, 1996).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0271022914
• ISBN 13: 9780271022918
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile