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PERCEPTION AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN MERLEAU-PONTY’S PHENOMENOLOGY This page intentionally left blank Perception and Its Development in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology EDITED BY KIRSTEN JACOBSON AND JOHN RUSSON UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press 2017 Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com Printed in Canada ISBN 978-1-4875-0128-0 Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable-based inks. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Perception and its development in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology / edited by Kirsten Jacobson and John Russon. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4875-0128-0 (cloth) 1. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908–1961. Phénoménologie de la perception. 2. Phenomenology. 3. Perception (Philosophy). I. Jacobson, Kirsten, 1973–, author, editor II. Russon, John, 1960–, author, editor B2430.M376P4753 2017 142’.7 C2017-900114-0 This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. Funded by the Financé par le Government gouvernement of Canada du Canada Dedicated to Edward S. Casey, for his kindness, friendship, and inspiration This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi A Note on Citations xiii Introduction: Perception and Its Development 3 kirsten jacobson and john russon Part I: Passivity and Intersubjectivity 1 Freedom and Passivity: Attention, Work, and Language 25 john russon 2 The Image and the Workspace: Merleau-Ponty and Levinas on Passivity and Rhythmic Subjectivity 40 maria talero 3 The “Entre-Deux” of Emotions: Emotions as Institutions 51 kym maclaren 4 Perceiving through Another: Incorporation and the Child Perceiver 81 susan m. bredlau Part II: Generality and Objectivity 5 Neglecting Space: Making Sense of a Partial Loss of One’s World through a Phenomenological Account of the Spatiality of Embodiment 101 kirsten jacobson viii Contents 6 Moving into Being: The Motor Basis of Perception, Balance, and Reading 123 don beith 7 On the Nature of Space: Getting from Motricity to Refl ection and Back Again 142 noah moss brender 8 Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Natural Time 159 david ciavatta Part III: Meaning and Ambiguity 9 Institution, Expression, and the Temporality of Meaning in Merleau-Ponty 193 david morris 10 Implications of Merleau-Ponty’s Account of Binocularity 221 ömer aygün 11 Alterity and Expression in Merleau-Ponty: A Response to Levinas 242 scott marratto Part IV: Expression 12 Aesthetic Ideas: Developing the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty with the Art of Matta-Clark 253 matthew j. goodwin 13 Flesh as the Space of Mourning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Meets Ana Mendieta 272 stefan kristensen 14 Phenomenology and the Body Politic: Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and Democracy 283 peter costello Contents ix 15 Phenomenology as First-Order Perception: Speech, Vision, and Refl ection in Merleau-Ponty 308 laura mcmahon Bibliography 339 Contributors 361 Index 367
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