Childlike Peace in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas Childlike Peace in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas
Philosophy of Childhood

Childlike Peace in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas

Intersubjectivity as Dialectical Spiral

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By examining the parent-child relationship, Childlike Peace in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas argues that the primordial structure of our personal encounters with others should be understood as a dialectical spiral. Drawing on the work of twentieth-century philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas, and informed by recent advances in cognitive neuroscience and child development, Brock Bahler develops a phenomenological description of the parent-child relationship in order to articulate an account of intersubjectivity that is fundamentally ethically oriented, dialogical, and mutually dynamic. This dialectical spiral—in contrast to Cartesian tradition of the subject and the Hegelian master-slave dialectic—suggests that our lives are equiprimordially interwoven with both the richness of mutual engagement and the responsibility to be for-the-other. The parent-child relationship provides the basis for a theoretical account of intersubjectivity that is marked by a creative interaction between self and other that cannot be reduced to an economic exchange, a totalizing structure, or a unilateral asymmetrical responsibility.

In conversation with the philosophical thought of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Hegel, Sartre, and Freud, as well as recent research in cognitive neuroscience and child development, this work will be of interest for those working in the fields of continental philosophy, embodied cognition, philosophy of childhood, psychoanalysis, psychology, philosophy for children (P4C), and education.

GÉNERO
No ficción
PUBLICADO
2016
1 de agosto
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
236
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Lexington Books
VENDEDOR
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
TAMAÑO
2
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