Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Whitehead: A Romantic and Invisible Influence
What bearing did the works of Whitehead have on the late Merleau-Ponty and his emerging ontology of flesh? When gauged by analysis of citations alone, Whitehead's influence on Merleau-Ponty appears to be a brief and minor encounter. However, despite the paucity of explicit reference to Whitehea...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
[2018]
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Process studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 47, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 62-82 |
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Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947
/ Reception
/ Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 1908-1961
/ Education
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| RelBib Classification: | TK Recent history VA Philosophy ZF Education |
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| Summary: | What bearing did the works of Whitehead have on the late Merleau-Ponty and his emerging ontology of flesh? When gauged by analysis of citations alone, Whitehead's influence on Merleau-Ponty appears to be a brief and minor encounter. However, despite the paucity of explicit reference to Whitehead, there is an argument to be made that Whitehead's philosophy played a pivotal role in the development of Merleau-Ponty's late thought. This can be understood in relation to Whitehead's theory of education, which consists of three stages: romance, precision, and generalization. It will also be shown how Whitehead's theory of education corresponds to Merleau-Ponty's incomplete phenomenological reduction. From this, we are provided with access to a metaphenomenological reading of Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre, which can be understood as an ongoing movement between phenomenology and ontology, a movement in which Whitehead's thought played a significantif largely invisiblerole. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/process2018471/24 |