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Ethics
Michal Liptak
Summary: This article explores the concept of depth in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and its implications for perception, art, and politics, contrasting with Husserl's phenomenological inquiries. It argues that Merleau-Ponty's approach leads to concrete criticism in art and active engagement in politics, in contrast to Husserl's more detached stance. The choice of specific artworks and political involvements can retrospectively illuminate the transcendental phenomenological investigations themselves.
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Geography
Eden Kinkaid
Summary: This article identifies two major problems within emerging formulations of 'post-phenomenology' in geography: its approach to the subject and its limited analytical engagement with concepts of social difference. The author suggests that post-phenomenologists learn from critical phenomenology and bring its insights together with developments in contemporary human geography in order to address these shortcomings in its theoretical foundations.
PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Brent Dean Robbins
Summary: Maslow suggests studying exceptional individuals to identify biological traits distinguishing flourishing from languishing. His method is criticized as circular and has eugenic implications. However, his call to understand normativity and bridge the fact-value dichotomy is well-considered. A phenomenological approach reveals normativity at a pre-predicative level. Agapic love can work as a normative idea for ethical relations, subject to investigation within neuroscience through dialogue with phenomenology.
JOURNAL OF HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychiatry
Giuseppe Civitarese
Summary: Intersubjectivity is a central concept in contemporary psychoanalysis, referring to the interaction between two constituted subjects. Originating from Husserl and developed by Merleau-Ponty, intersubjectivity dissolves the binary opposition between subjectivity and intersubjectivity, transforming it into a dialectic relationship. Examples of weak and strong intersubjectivity are provided, with the latter exemplified by the post-Bionian theory of the analytic field.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
(2021)
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Robin M. Muller
Summary: This paper critically examines the development of Merleau-Pontyan phenomenology and radical embodied cognitive science from Berlin-School Gestalt theory, highlighting Merleau-Ponty's adoption of an ontology of flesh. His arguments for this ontology rely on criticisms of Gestalt Psychology, leading him into a realm of romantic philosophy.
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Philosophy
Joaquin Trujillo
Summary: This article deconstructs Alfred Schutz's thinking to focus on the essence of common sense as a phenomenon. It highlights the foundational importance of common sense in Schutz's constitutive phenomenology of the natural attitude. By presenting life-world, typification, and common sense as a unified phenomenon of common praxis, Schutz's interpretation of common sense is further expanded and made accessible to the human sciences through hermeneutic-phenomenological considerations.
FILOSOFIJA-SOCIOLOGIJA
(2021)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Jan Halak
Summary: This paper aims to clarify Merleau-Ponty's contribution to an embodied-enactive account of mathematical cognition. It discusses the convergence between embodied higher cognition and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, specifically in the domains of geometry and algebra. The paper also explains the role of gestalt psychology and motor intentionality in Merleau-Ponty's account, as well as the contrast between his approach and ontologically idealistic and realistic views on mathematical objects.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eunki Kang, Eun Joo Park
Summary: The issue of transparency in architectural environments has been explored since the early 20th century, but there is still a lack of leading theory in the post-pandemic era. Achieving transparency in architecture requires combining cognition of the natural environment and spatial experiential perceptions, with depth serving as a medium for transparency.
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Philosophy
Andre Dias de Andrade
Summary: This paper reexamines the problem of genesis in phenomenology of time, explores the conditions under which it can transition from a phenomenology of movement to a phenomenology of difference, and proposes further development on the problem of logos within phenomenology without losing the consistency of phenomenality.
KRITERION-REVISTA DE FILOSOFIA
(2021)
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Cultural Studies
Blake Allen
Summary: The article provides a critical analysis of Janicaud's position and proposes a reconstrual of the boundary of phenomenology. It demonstrates that Merleau-Ponty's work focuses on beauty and that the concept of beauty is inherently theological in nature.
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2021)
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Philosophy
Bernhard Waldenfels
Summary: This article challenges the Proustian concept of the door and examines the significance of what lies beyond it in the context of In Search of Lost Time. It argues that the other side of the door is not associated with mystical enlightenment or contemplation, but rather represents a form of writing that brings the invisible into visibility.
EIKASIA-REVISTA DE FILOSOFIA
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Malcolm Thorburn, Steven A. Stolz
Summary: This paper reviews the theoretical foundations of phenomenology and argues for the integration of the self and social aspects in education. By examining foundational phenomenologists and reciprocal connections in human action, it presents the ontological possibilities for a more central role of self and social phenomenology in educational aims.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
(2021)
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Education & Educational Research
Malcolm Thorburn, Steven A. Stolz
Summary: The paper suggests ongoing reconceptualizing of educational aims and values is necessary, especially given the complexities of current times. By studying Merleau-Ponty's work, it emphasizes the importance of subjective interpretation of experience for achieving a more comprehensive and nuanced education of the mind and body.
OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION
(2022)
Editorial Material
Ethics
Chris A. Suijker, Corijn van Mazijk, Fred A. Keijzer, Boaz Meijer
Summary: The paper introduces a phenomenological framework for understanding erectile dysfunction, emphasizing the theory of sexual projection and suggesting a weakening of this function as a potential new etiology. This approach provides philosophical depth and highlights overlooked aspects in the study of ED, complementing the current medical approach.
MEDICINE HEALTH CARE AND PHILOSOPHY
(2021)
Article
Ethics
Katherine Ward
Summary: This paper presents the author's interpretation of Merleau-Ponty's concept of normal in Phenomenology of Perception, drawing on the concept of fit and the existential-phenomenological framework. The reframing of the term provides a clear understanding of the hidden methodology and offers the possibility of grounding the concept of fit in an existential-phenomenological conception of the self.