Selfhood and appearing : : the intertwining / / by James Mensch.

• Author: Mensch, James R.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 pages).

What is the relation between our selfhood and appearing? Our embodiment positions us in the world, situating us as an object among its visible objects. Yet, by opening and shutting our eyes, we can make the visible world appear and disappear—a fact that convinces us that the world is in us. Thus, we have to assert with Merleau-Ponty that we are in the world that is in us: the two are intertwined. Author James Mensch employs the insights of Jan Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology to understand this double relationship of being-in. In this volume, he shows how this relation constitutes the reality of our selfhood, shaping our social and political interactions as well as the violence that constantly threatens to undermine them.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Selfhood -- Patočka and Artificial Intelligence -- The Question of Naturalizing Phenomenology -- The Temporality of Merleau-Ponty’s Intertwining -- The Intertwining as a Form of Our Motion of Existence -- Aristotle’s Account of Space and Time -- Arousal and Desire -- Temporality and the Alterity of Space -- Embodied Temporalization and the Mind-Body Problem -- Intersubjectivity -- Self-Touch and the Perception of the Other -- The Intertwining of Generations -- Public Space and Embodiment -- Patočka’s Transformation of Phenomenology -- Human Rights and the Motion of Existence -- Violence and the Political -- Violence and Blindness: The Case of Uchuraccay -- Selfhood and Violence -- Senseless Violence: Liminality and Intertwining -- Violence and Existence—Schmitt’s Concept of the Political -- Religion -- Binding and Unbinding in the Religions of the Book -- Transcendence and Intertwining -- Incarnation as Embodiment -- The Animal and the Divine—The Alterity that I Am.