Immersing in the Concrete: Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the Japanese Perspective - Analecta Husserliana Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998 edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: Dordrecht; London: Kluwer, 1998.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; The world was first introduced to the expertize and originality of Japanese scholars in phenomenology in 'Analecta Husserliana' volume IX (1979). Following Merleau-Ponty's tendency, the studies collected here make a fresh phenomenological start in relation to classical Husserlian phenomenology. Table of Contents: The Theme: Immersing in the Concrete - Maurice Merleau-Ponty in a New Wave of Japanese Phenomenology. Introduction; S. Matsuba. Part I: From the Life-World to the Embodiment. The Incarnation of Consciousness and the Carnalization of the World in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy; M. Sato. Ineinander' and Vortex: On Merleau-Ponty's Interpretation of Husserl; T. Kakuni. Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: The Conception of the World; S. Nagataki. Part II: The Plurality of Horizons. On the Horizon': Where James and Merleau-Ponty Meet; N. Kazashi. Depth and Infinity in Merleau-Ponty; Y. Ito. Part III: The Return to Phenomena': Natural Signs, Language and Things. On Merleau-Ponty's Turn'; K. Ihara. The Fallacy of natural Signs'; T. Sugeno. Empietement intentionnel: A Study on Merleau-Ponty's Thinking in the 1950's; S. Kubo. Merleau-Ponty on Language and Things; H. Hongo. Merleau-Ponty and Saussure: On the Turning Point of Merleau-Ponty's Thinking; S. Kaganoi. Part IV: Communiction: Inter-Personal, Social and Political. The Claim of Universality and Violence: Merleau-Ponty's Theory of Violence; S. Matsuba. Others in Institutions; F. Abe. Psychoanalysis and Ontology: Lacan, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty; O. Musubu. Merleau-Ponty and Special Education for Motor Disability; T. Kono. Le monde ou bien la vie? Quelques remarques critiques au suject de la priorite dans l'institution de sens dans la derniere pensee de M. Merleau-Ponty; A-T. Tymieniecka. Index of Names."

Contributor Bio:  Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa The Theme / Literature and TemporalityAcknowledgments Editora (TM)s Introduction: A.-T. Tymieniecka / Timing Our LifeSECTION IA. Ashvo-Munoz / A Temporal ChoraA. Omrani / Literature and the Sense of the PastR. Gray / "A Moment in Timelessness": Ben Okria (TM)s Astonishing the GodsT. E. Afejuku / A Mode of Recollection in African AutobiographyM.-Q. Ma / "In an Instant of Time": The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the "Upsurge" of the Present in Exra Pounda (TM)s CantosW. S. Smith / Ascent Patters in the Early Poetry of TennysonSECTION IIJ. S. Smith / Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingardena (TM)s The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of the Literary Work of ArtV. Kocay / Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John PerseI. Okhamafe / Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and NietzscheP. Mroz / The Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist NovelT. Despotovic / Towards the Infinite MemoryM. Dion / Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Roust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue SECTION IIIR. M. Painter / Temporal Rearrangement of the Moral Cosmos: Alice Munroa (TM)s FictionV. G. Rivas / On the Distinction of Tragedy and Bathos through the Perusal of Henfry Jamesa (TM) The Beast in the JungleW. Oa (TM) Brien / Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and TraumaJ. Kim-Reuter / Transcendence Unbound: Existence and Temporality in Montaignea (TM)s EssaysA. Zacharz / Translation Lost, Translation Regained - On Temporality, or onBeingL. Kimmel / Notes on Poetics of TimeJ. Handerek / Camus, Time and LiteratureSECTION IVM. Durante / The "Deepening of the Present" Throughout Representation as the Temporal Condition of a Creative ProcessV. Reed and M. Statkiewicz / "My Dear Timea (TM)s Waste": The Experience of Time and Creation in ProustD. Doyle / Indexicalities of Image Text and TimeJ. Collins / Achieving a Human Time: What We Can Learn from Faulknera (TM)s BenjyL. Livesay / Kafkaa (TM)s The Metamorphosis: Gregora (TM)s Da-Sein Paralyzed by DebtR. J. Wilson III / Time in Post-Modern Fiction: Timea (TM)s Arrow, the French Lieutenanta (TM)s Woman, and "The Alexandria Quartet"INDEXES OF NAMES