Beschreibung:
This book draws on Merleau-Ponty¿s phenomenology, psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to explicate Merleau-Ponty¿s unwritten ethics. Daly contends that though Merleau-Ponty never developed an ethics per se, there is significant textual evidence that clearly indicates he had the intention to do so. This book highlights the explicit references to ethics that he offers and proposes that these, allied to his ontological commitments, provide the basis for the development of an ethics.
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Alterity - The Trace of the Other.- Chapter 2: Alterity - The Reversibility Thesis and the Visible.- Chapter 3: Alterity - The Reversibility Thesis and the Invisible.- Chapter 4: Objections to the Reversibility Thesis.- Chapter 5: Intersubjectivity - Phenomenological, Psychological and Neuroscientific Intersections.- Chapter 6: Primary Intersubjectivity: Affective Reversibility, Empathy and the Primordial 'We'.- Chapter 7: The Social Matrix - Primary Empathy as the Ground of Ethics.- Chapter 8: The Ethical Interworld.