Immersing in the Concrete: Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the Japanese Perspective

by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (Editor), Shoichi Matsuba (Series Editor)

The world was first introduced to the expertise and originality of Japanese scholars in phenomenology in Analecta Husserliana Vol. IX (1979). The third generation of Japanese scholars, belonging to the newly-founded Merleau-Ponty Japanese Circle, are now presented. Following Merleau-Ponty's tendency, the studies collected here seem to make a fresh phenomenological start in relation to classical Husserlian phenomenology, turning deliberately towards the `concrete', `the wild world', `flesh', `embodiment', `natural signs', `primal nature'. The rule of intentionality, natural language is thereby devalued.
The wealth of insights, the freshness of intuition and the seminal power of these fascinating enquiries well merit a close reading.

263 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1998

About the author

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka was a Polish, later American philosopher, phenomenologist, founder and president of The World Phenomenology Institute, and editor (since its inception in the late 1960s) of the book series Analecta Husserliana.

Reviews

[Jesse]

A great collection of essays concerning studies of Merleau-Ponty's work in Japan during the 90's. The essays that stuck out to me the most concerned the connection between cerebral palsey treatment in Japan and MP's early phenomenology of the body, and the comparison between Husserl's Lebenswelt and MP's Lived World.

Any of these essays are good for picking to read alone, and this collection of essays is worth revisiting.