Addressing Merleau-Ponty's work Phenomenology of Perception, in dialogue with The Visible and the Invisible, his lectures at the Collège de France, and his reading of Proust, this book argues that at play in his thought is a philosophy of "ontological lateness". This describes the manner in which philosophical reflection is fated to lag behind its objects; therefore an absolute grasp on being remains beyond its reach.
Merleau-Ponty articulates this philosophy against the backdrop of what he calls "cruel thought", a style of reflecting that seeks resolution by limiting, circumscribing, and arresting its object. By contrast, the philosophy of ontological lateness seeks no such finality-no apocalypsis or unveiling-but is characterized by its ability to accept the veiling of being and its own constitutive lack of punctuality. To this extent, his thinking inaugurates a new relation to the becoming of sense that overcomes cruel thought. Merleau-Ponty's work gives voice to a wisdom of dispossession that allows for the withdrawal of being.
Never before has anyone engaged with the theme of Merleau-Ponty's own understanding of philosophy in such a sustained way as Whitmoyer does in this volume.
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The Philosophy of Ontological Lateness
Merleau-Ponty and the Tasks of Thinking
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Table of contents
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- Title
- Contentsâ
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1âCruel Thought
- 1âPhilosophical Interrogation and Perceptual Faith
- 2âThe Real and the Outside
- 3âA Consciousness without Fissures
- Part 2âThe Deflagration of Sense
- 4âLe sentir du sens
- 5âTemporality disparue
- 6âFreedom and Lateness to Being
- Part 3âThe Philosophy of Lateness, the Lateness of Philosophy
- 7âEulogy for Philosophy
- 8âAt the Point of Departure
- Conclusion: What Can We Have?
- Notes
- References
- Glossary
- Index of Names
- Thematic Index
- Copyright
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