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Selfhood and appearing
the intertwining
Abstract
What is the relation between our selfhood and appearing? Our embodiment positions us in the world, situating us as an object among its visible objects. Yet, by opening and shutting our eyes, we can make the visible world appear and disappear—a fact that convinces us that the world is in us. Thus, we have to assert with Merleau-Ponty that we are in the world that is in us: the two are intertwined. Author James Mensch employs the insights of Jan Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology to understand this double relationship of being-in. In this volume, he shows how this relation constitutes the reality of our selfhood, shaping our social and political interactions as well as the violence that constantly threatens to undermine them.
Publication details
Publisher: Brill
Place: Leiden
Year: 2018
Pages: 324
Series: Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology
Series volume: 17
ISBN (hardback): 978-90-04-37584-0
Full citation:
Mensch James (2018) Selfhood and appearing: the intertwining. Leiden, Brill.