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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Merleau Ponty+Bergson « Previous | |Next »
January 13, 2007

In her Time Travels: Feminism, Nature and Power Liz Grosz turns to exploring Merleau-Ponty and ontological difference, by which she means the provocations of the world, the entertwinment of the thing with the subject and the subject with the thing, the ways in which subjects are or can be differentiated from each other, and their different perspectives on and interests in the world . She reads Merleau-Ponty differently as she positions his writings:

in a different context than that in which it is commonly placed: rather than with his own self-consciously acknowledged lineage of phenomenological thinkers from Hegel through Husserl to Heidegger, Sartre, de Beauvoir (and onto feminst phenomenology) I will place his work in a less understood and examined context....the philosophy of nature, of biology and the movement of evolutionary theory developed since the the mid-nineteenth century.

She argues that Darwin's work on the active dynamism of the world and the active subject it generates transformed the biological sciences and the task and image of philosophy.

She says:

Philosophy after Darwin could no longer justifiably devote itself to the classical contemplation of unchanging forms or essences, or even Hegelian a priori historical convolutions, but had to convert itself into something like an attunment to the particular and its history. It is required henceforth, as Merleau-Pont'ys work testifies to take seriously the immersion of consciousness in life, and the immersion of life in time and materiality that Darwinism has left as a question, a gift to philosophy.

As an aside I would have thought that Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, though it repudiates the particular, marks the philosophical turn to history, dynamism and the immersion of life in time.

Grosz explores Merleau Ponty in relation to the texts of Bergson rather than Darwin.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 10:33 PM | | Comments (1)
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In my opinion none of these theorists ever talk about the nature of consciousness or that everything arises in consciousness-- is a modification of consciousness.

But then again they cant talk about consciousness because they share the dreadful left brained "sanity" of the normal every-person trapped within the one dimensional parameters of Webers deadly iron cage. No free consciousness is allowed or even possible.

See for instance:

1. www.aboutadidam.org/lesser_alternatives/scientific_materialism/index.html

Also 2. www.dabase.net/broken.htm