Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy by Smyth, Bryan A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Series Title Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Text Preface: Rereading Phenomenology of Perception

Methodological questions Eugen Fink and the idea of constructive phenomenology Merleau-Ponty’s response to Fink Rereading Phenomenology of Perception

Introduction: Flight From Phenomenology? 1 Antoine de Saint Exupéry, “Soliloquizing Angel” 7

Introduction Toward a cosmic humanism The historical context of Pilote de guerre The claims of Pilote de guerre The death of Saint Exupéry Conclusion

2 Embodiment and Incarnation

Further remarks on the Exupérian ending Earlier references to Saint Exupéry (Part 1) Embodiment and historicity Considerations on Lukács Conjectures on the origins of Merleau-Ponty’s Marxism Merleau-Ponty and engagement Recapitulation

3 Totality and Embodiment

Lukács on Totality Lukács and Merleau-Ponty Embodiment and repression Earlier references to Saint Exupéry (Part 2) Consequences

4 Elements of an Incarnational Marxism

Merleau-Ponty on sacrifice and death Thinking the political The proletariat question The tacit cogito Class consciousness Human productivity Rationality

5 Contemporary Heroism

The existential attitude Heroism and history The contemporary hero Merleau-Ponty’s myth of man Saint Exupéry and Merleau-Ponty Strategic detachment

Conclusion: Heroic Sublimation Notes

Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5

Afterword Bibliography Index Copyright