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Merleau-Ponty Between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology

In: SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Ser.

Areshidze, Giorgi

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Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Matrix Events and Institution -- Sedimentation and Symbolism in Institution -- Symbolic Forms and Elemental Being -- Outline of Chapters -- Chapter 1. Matrix Events: Methods and Antecedents -- The Homeric Diphthong -- The Platonic Dividing-Collecting -- The Merleau-Pontian écart -- Interrogative Method and écart -- Écart and Division in Heraclitus -- λόγος and ἁπτόμενον in Heraclitus -- Some Remaining Questions -- Chapter 2. Space-Imagination -- Abstract Geometrical Essences, Morphological Ideals, and Phantasy in Husserl -- The Role of Imagination in the Substruction of Essences -- Sculptural Shapes and the Space of Imagination -- Beyond Sight and Image -- Some Remaining Questions -- Chapter 3. Light-Dark/Awake-Asleep -- The Light-Dark Opposition in Jean-Luc Nancy -- Light-Dark and Elementality -- Waking-Sleeping -- Dark Sleep -- Some Remaining Questions -- Chapter 4. Philosophy-Symbolism -- Dreams and Passivity -- The Positive Symbol -- The Positive Symbol and Psyche -- The Positive Symbol, Psyche, and λέγειν -- The Positive Symbol in Philosophy: Analysis and the Analyzed -- Some Remaining Questions -- Chapter 5. Philosophical Language-Literary Language -- Ontology, Not Metaphorical Ontology -- Finding a Hermeneutical Reverie with Proust -- The Chiasm between Conceptual and Literary Language -- The Chiasm between the Real and the Fictive -- The Chiasm between Localized Space and Nonlocalized Time -- Some Remaining Questions -- Conclusion -- Sedimentation, Elementality -- The Different Politics of Metaphor and Symbolism -- Politics, History, and Elements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Merleau-Ponty between philosophy and symbolism: the matrixed ontology

In: SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Kaushik, Rajiv

"Merleau-Ponty states in his Institution and Passivity lectures that he wants to "consider criticism itself as a symbolic form" as opposed to doing "a philosophy of symbolic form." This statement seems counterintuitive for Merleau-Ponty, who has been called "the philosopher of the sensible." In this book, Kaushik investigates this question, arguing that Merleau-Ponty has raised the stakes of his ontology such that it is no longer a matter of finding a solution to the difference between "the real and the fictive" but rather, of constellating and matrixing them. This ontological matrix amounts to a psychoanalysis of the philosophy of identity. Kaushik argues that philosophies of reflection, in which reflection seeks to coincide with its origins, are in fact uncritical because they miss the form of differentiation that limits them. His analyses of the matrices between space-imagination, light-dark, awake-asleep, repression-expression, etc., subvert these philosophies and reveal the symbolic form in terms of its lack of precise origin or destination. Drawing from recently published course materials of Merleau-Ponty's, and attentive to his reliance on literary phrases for phenomenological insights, Kaushik brings out the living force of Merleau-Ponty's thought and develops his radical insight of the primacy of the symbolic form, even in an ontology that claims to be about the sensible and its elements"--

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