Interrogating ethics [Texte imprimé] : embodying the good in Merleau-Ponty / edited by James Hatley, Janice McLane & Christian Diehm

"These essays focus on our embodied responsiveness to others, particularly as this is illuminated in the thought of French phenomenologist and psychologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Contributors discuss aesthetics, political theory, developmental and depth psychology, interfaith relations, literary criticism, feminist and ecological critique, phenomenological description and hermeneutical analysis"--Provided by publisher

Index

Bibliogr. p. 361-372

Introduction: Interrogating ethics / James Hatley -- Ethics in question -- Vision, mirror and expression : the genesis of the ethical body in Merleau-Ponty's later works / Alia l-Saji -- The contingency of goodness / Mary C. Rawlinson -- A critical exchange I -- Part A: Responsivity of the body : traces of the other in Merleau-Ponty's theory of body and flesh / Bernhard Waldenfels -- Part B: Moral blind spots and ethical appeals : a response to Bernhard Waldenfels / Diane Perpich -- The phenomenology of the body as an ethical initiative -- The boundaries of a victim-life / Janice McLane -- Echoes of the flesh : on the ethical significance of bodily remembrance / Carolin Woolson -- The roots of agency : Merleau-Ponty, flesh and Foucault / David Brubaker -- Facing Levinas : Merleau-Ponty's physiognomic ethics / Glen A. Mazis -- The phenomenology of language as an ethical initiative -- Language as the flesh of being : Merleau-Ponty and Kristeva / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei -- Ethical language : Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein on mediated conflict / Susan Michele O'Shaughnessy -- Critical exchange II -- Part A: Limits of the flesh : the role of reflection in David Abram's eco-phenomenology / Ted Toadvine -- Part B: Between the body and the breathing earth : a reply to Ted Toadvine / David Abram -- Codicil : bodily verges -- The mouth : a new opening for philosophy / David Wood -- Specters of Merleau-Ponty / Hugh J. Silverman