Language Beyond Postmodernism: Saying and Thinking in Gendlin Philosophy (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Eugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays edited by David Michael Levin. This compilation of critical studies--each followed by a comment from Gendlin himself--investigates how concepts grow out of experience, and explores relations between Gendlin's philosophy of language and experience and the philosophies of Wittgenstein, Dilthey, and Heidegger. cover......Page 1 Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Series)......Page 2 LANGUAGE BEYOND POSTMODERNISM. Saying and Thinking in Gendlin's Philosophy. Edited by David Michael Levin......Page 5 Contents......Page 9 Introduction - David Michael Levin......Page 11 1. Why the Project Seems Impossible......Page 13 2. How Some Roles of Experiencing Can Be Deliberately Employed in Our Thinking......Page 21 3. The New Way Expressed in Terms of Other Philosophers......Page 45 1......Page 52 2......Page 58 3......Page 61 4......Page 66 5......Page 73 3. Filling in the Blanks - David Kolb......Page 75 4. Tacit Knowledge and Implicit Intricacy - William James Earle......Page 94 5. The Situatedness of Thinking, Knowing, and Speaking: Wittgenstein and Gendlin - Hans Julius Schneider......Page 107 1. General Perspectives......Page 108 2. To Say Something and to Mean It......Page 111 3. To Know-How and to Know-That......Page 116 4. Activity and Passivity......Page 121 5. Unembodied Intelligence?......Page 125 6. The Implicit Intricacy of Mind and Situation - Meredith Williams......Page 130 1. The Intricacy of Thought......Page 132 2. The Intricacy of Situation......Page 140 3. Intricacy and Patterns......Page 147 4. Conclusion......Page 152 Reply to Williams......Page 153 7. Embodied Meaning and Cognitive Science - Mark Johnson......Page 158 1. Gendlin's Project: Thinking beyond Patterns......Page 160 2. Embodied Metaphorical Meaning......Page 163 3. Gendlin's Critique of Cognitive Linguistics......Page 168 4. Meaning That Exceeds Structure......Page 175 Reply to Johnson......Page 178 1. "Experience" and "Experiencing"......Page 186 2. Levels of Meaning......Page 189 3. Gendlin and Phenomenology......Page 192 Reply to Mohanty......Page 194 1. Introduction......Page 200 2. Experience and Imposed Order......Page 205 3. Dilthey and Erlebnis......Page 214 4. Heidegger and Hermeneutic Inquiry......Page 220 5. Conclusion: Historicity and Hermeneutics......Page 227 Reply to Scharff......Page 236 10. Language and Human Nature - Lawrence J. Hatab......Page 244 Reply to Hatab......Page 256 The Project......Page 262 Language......Page 264 GendlirYs Contribution......Page 265 The Interactional Basis of Being......Page 267 Criticism of Derrida......Page 268 Gendlin's Critique of Formed Schema......Page 271 Horizonal Phenomena......Page 272 Knowing with Schema......Page 274 The More-Than-Formed......Page 275 Reply to Liberman......Page 276 12. Carrying Forward: Gadamer and Gendlin on History, Language, and the Body - Jerald Wallulis......Page 280 The Carrying Forward of Tradition......Page 281 The Life of the Language Community......Page 283 The Movement of Bodily Feeling and Language......Page 285 The Life of the Community and the Life of the Body......Page 288 Reply to Wallulis......Page 292 13. Intricacy: A Metaphysical Idea - Graeme Nicholson......Page 298 1. Formative Energy......Page 300 2. The Ontological Difference......Page 304 Reply to Nicholson......Page 309 1......Page 315 2......Page 317 3......Page 324 Reply to Foti......Page 327 1......Page 331 2......Page 333 3......Page 335 4......Page 339 Reply to Margolis......Page 342 Works Cited......Page 349 Notes......Page 353 Contributors......Page 385