Nature and Logos : A Whiteheadian Key to Merleau-Ponty's Fundamental Thought

Exploration of Alfred North Whitehead's influence on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ontology of nature. This is the first booklength account of how Maurice Merleau-Ponty used certain texts by Alfred North Whitehead to develop an ontology based on nature, and how he could have used other Whitehead texts that he did not know in order to complete his last ontology. This account is enriched by several of Merleau-Ponty's unpublished writings not previously available in English, by the first detailed treatment of certain works by F.W.J. Schelling in the course of showing how they exerted a substantial influence on both Merleau-Ponty and Whitehead, and by the first extensive discussion of Merleau-Ponty's interest in the Stoics's notion of the twofold logos --the logos endiathetos and the logos proforikos . This book provides a thorough exploration of the consonance between these two philosophers in their mutual desire to overcome various bifurcations of nature, and of nature from spirit, that continued to haunt philosophy and science since the 17th-century. NATURE AND LOGOS......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 9 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 11 INTRODUCTION......Page 15 1. NATURE AS A PHENOMENON......Page 25 2. FROM DUALISM TO A TWOFOLD ONTOLOGY......Page 61 3. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH......Page 87 4. LOGOS ENDIATHETOS AND LOGOS PROFORIKOS......Page 117 5. THE SCHELLINGIAN AND BERGSONIAN HERITAGE......Page 137 6. NATURE AND LIFE......Page 167 7. BEYOND THE LIMITS OF PHENOMENOLOGY......Page 195 8. COM-PREHENDING THE FLESH......Page 219 CONCLUSION......Page 249 REFERENCES......Page 255 B......Page 267 C......Page 268 G......Page 269 K......Page 270 M......Page 271 P......Page 272 S......Page 273 T......Page 274 W......Page 275 NATURE AND LOGOS 5 CONTENTS 9 ABBREVIATIONS 11 INTRODUCTION 15 1. NATURE AS A PHENOMENON 25 2. FROM DUALISM TO A TWOFOLD ONTOLOGY 61 3. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH 87 4. LOGOS ENDIATHETOS AND LOGOS PROFORIKOS 117 5. THE SCHELLINGIAN AND BERGSONIAN HERITAGE 137 6. NATURE AND LIFE 167 7. BEYOND THE LIMITS OF PHENOMENOLOGY 195 8. COM-PREHENDING THE FLESH 219 CONCLUSION 249 REFERENCES 255 INDEX 267 A 267 B 267 C 268 D 269 E 269 F 269 G 269 H 270 I 270 J 270 K 270 L 271 M 271 N 272 O 272 P 272 R 273 S 273 T 274 U 275 V 275 W 275 Nature As Phenomenon -- From Dualism To A Twofold Ontology -- The Way Of All Flesh -- Logos Endiathetos And Logos Proforikos -- The Schellingian And Bergsonian Heritage -- Nature And Life -- Beyond The Limits Of Phenomenology : The Fate Of The Subject -- Com-prehending The Flesh. William S. Hamrick And Jan Van Der Veken. Includes Bibliographical References (p. ) And Index.