Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Combining Maurice Merleau-Ponty's 1960 course notes on Edmund Husserl's__"__The Origin of Geometry__,"__ his course summary, related texts, and critical essays, this collection offers a unique and welcome glimpse into both Merleau-Ponty's nuanced reading of Husserl's famed late writings and his persistent effort to track the very genesis of truth through the incarnate idealization of language. Combining Maurice Merleau-Ponty's 1960 course notes on Edmund Husserl's "The Origin of Geometry," his course summary, related texts, and critical essays by each of the editors, this collection offers a unique and welcome glimpse into both Merleau-Ponty's nuanced reading of Husserl's famed late writings and his persistent effort to track the very genesis of truth through the incarnate idealization of language. In his notes, Merleau-Ponty focuses primarily on Husserl's well-known "The Origin of Geometry" text from The Crisis and on another of his posthumous texts on the phenomenological role of the earth as earth-ground. Both of these essays lead to what Merleau-Ponty called in a working note a "transcendental history" -- an analysis of a geographical inscription of history. Likewise, Merleau-Ponty is concerned in these notes with the philosophical and ontological implications of the origin of idealization, the passage from passivity to activity, the interrelation between perception and rationality -- or the intertwining of nature and logos. Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology provides an important supplement to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy and his relation to Husserl for English-speaking readers. In particular, it gives an insight into the final form of Merleau-Ponty's unfinished masterpiece, The Visible and the Invisible. With the editors' essays connecting Merleau-Ponty to Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas as well as to Husserl, this volume is a valuable sourcebook on the thought of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Levinas. Foreword: Verflechtung: The Triple Significance Of Merleau-ponty's Course Notes On Husserl's The Origin Of Geometry / Leonard Lawlor -- Husserl At The Limits Of Phenomenology / Maurice Merleau-ponty -- Resume Of The Course: Husserl At The Limits Of Phenomenology -- Course Notes: Husserl At The Limits Of Phenomenology -- The Origin Of Geometry And Related Texts / Edmund Husserl -- The Origin Of Geometry -- Foundational Investigations Of The Phenomenological Origin Of The Spatiality Of Nature: The Originary Ark, The Earth, Does Not Move -- The World Of The Living Present And The Constitution Of The Surrounding World That Is Outside The Flesh -- Afterword: Philosophy As Perspectiva Artificialis: Merleau-ponty's Critique Of Husserlian Constructivism / Bettina Bergo. Maurice Merleau-ponty ; Edited By Leonard Lawlor With Bettina Bergo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. https://archive.org/details/husserlatlimitso0000unse Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961; Phenomenology xliv, 201 p. ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index