Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Language

327 Pages·2019·2.603 MB·

by  Dimitris Apostolopoulos

MERLEAU-PONTY’S
PHENOMENOLOGY OF
LANGUAGE

MERLEAU-PONTY’S
PHENOMENOLOGY OF
LANGUAGE
Dimitris Apostolopoulos
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
ANoteonAbbreviationsandTexts xi
Introduction 1
Notes 10
PartI 13
1 StructureandLanguage 15
1.Behaviour,MeaningandStructure 16
2.Description,SenseandSignification 21
3.StructureandExpression 27
4.UnresolvedQuestions 31
Notes 36
2 EmpiricalExpression 39
1.Schneider’sLinguisticCapacities 40
2.Merleau-Ponty’sHermeneuticAccountofLinguistic
Expression 46
2.1Sedimentation
2.2Gesture
2.3MeaningandInterpretation
3.AuthenticExpression 57
4.AuthenticLanguageandFreedom 59
Notes 64
3 TranscendentalExpression 69
1.ObjectiveThought 71
2.ExplanatoryOpenness 74
v
vi CONTENTS
3.TranscendentalReflection 78
3.1Circularity
3.2‘Tacit’and‘Spoken’Cogito
4.LanguageandFoundation 87
5.‘TranscendentalorAuthenticSpeech’ 97
6.DescriptionorCreation? 100
Notes 105
PartII 113
4 ScientificandLiteraryExpression 115
1.‘Metaphysics’or‘Rationality’and‘Expression’ 116
2.FormalExpression 120
3.ExpressioninLinguistics:Saussure 127
3.1‘Langue’and‘Parole’
3.2‘Parole’andDialogue
3.3‘Diacritical’Meaning-Formation
3.4Institution,RationalityandHistory
4.‘Indirect’or‘Operant’Expression:ProustandValéry 137
4.1OnPaintingandLiterature
4.2Valéryand‘theVoice’
4.3ProustandLiteraryDescription
5.Literature,PhenomenologyandMetaphysics 147
Notes 150
5 TheLinguisticFoundationsofOntology 153
1.Ontology,SenseandIntersubjectivity 155
2.TheImplicitOntologicalImplicationsofDialogue 159
2.1ReversibilityandNarcissism
2.2ActivityandPassivity
2.3Intentional‘Transgression’and‘Encroachment’
3.TheExplicitOntologicalImplicationsofDialogue 173
4.OntologicalExpressionintheMaking 176
Notes 180
PartIII 185
6 LanguageandWorld 187
1.PhilosophicalPredecessorsandPotentialInfluences 190
1.1Humboldt’s‘innereSprachform’
1.2Cassirer,LanguageandRepresentation
CONTENTS vii
2.MeaningasCohesion 196
2.1The‘Écart’
2.2‘Latent’Intentionality(‘Flesh’,‘Reversibility’and
‘Narcissism’)
2.3‘Institution’
3.ArticulatingtheWorld 208
3.1TheIntertwiningofSpeech,ThoughtandPerception
3.2‘Inherent’and‘Spoken’Language
3.3ExpressionandWorld-Formation
4.TheLimitsofLanguageandWorld 227
Notes 231
7 OntologyandLanguage 237
1.‘Hyper-Reflection’ 240
2.‘Interrogation’ 246
3.CreativeDescription 250
4.DialecticalExpression 254
5.ConceptInvention 262
6.LanguageandEssence 269
7.Philosophyas‘OperativeLanguage’ 276
Notes 280
Conclusion 287
Notes 296
Bibliography 297
1.WorksbyMerleau-Ponty 297
PublishedWorks
UnpublishedWorks
2.WorksbyOtherAuthors 298
Index 307
IndexNominum 307
IndexRerum 308
AbouttheAuthor 313