Phenomenology or Deconstruction? : : The Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur and Jean-Luc Nancy / / Christopher Watkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Watkin, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Perception --; 2. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Language --; 3. Paul Ricoeur: Selfhood --; 4. Paul Ricoeur: Justice --; 5. Jean-Luc Nancy: Sense --; 6. Jean-Luc Nancy: Plurality --; Concluding Remarks --; Bibliography and Further Reading --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748637607; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748637607?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christopher Watkin.

Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional understandings of the relationship between phenomenology and deconstruction through new readings of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricœur and Jean-Luc Nancy. A constant dialogue with Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes provides the impetus to establishing a new understanding of 'being' and 'presence' that exposes significant blindspots inherent in traditional readings of both phenomenology and deconstruction. In reproducing neither a stock phenomenological reaction to deconstruction nor the routine deconstructive reading of phenomenology, Christopher Watkin provides a fresh assessment of the possibilities for the future of phenomenology, along with a new reading of the deconstructive legacy. Through detailed studies of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Ricœur and Nancy, he shows how a phenomenological tradition much wider and richer than Husserlian or Heideggerean thought alone can take account of Derrida's critique of ontology and yet still hold a commitment to the ontological. This new reading of being and presence fundamentally re-draws our understanding of the relation of deconstruction and phenomenology, and provides the first sustained discussion of the possibilities and problems for any future 'deconstructive phenomenology'.