Tricks of time : Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur in search of time, self and meaning /
"Invites readers into discussions of time, self and meaning under the auspices of three thinkers: Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur. The work of each thinker is highlighted to show how each 'disrupts' 'clock time,' drawing out and reclaiming aspects of ou...
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
Duquesne University Press,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The existential preamble
- The general philosophical problem
- The present study
- Historical background
- Masters of disruption
- Structure of presentation
- The aporias of temporality
- The ordinary sense of time and self
- Discord and concord in the study of time
- The ultimate aporia of time
- Bergson and time as duration
- Introduction
- The rediscovery of insensity
- La durée réelle
- The rhythms of duration
- The profound self
- The problem of language
- The social self and the necessity of storytelling
- Meaning
- Merleau-Ponty and temporality
- Merleau-Ponty and Bergson
- Merleau-Ponty and Husserlian philosophy
- The structure of behavior
- Phenomenology of perception
- Freedom
- Language, meaning, and the unfinished self in phenomenology of perception
- The narrative tendency in phenomenology of perception and beyond
- The visible and the invisible
- The historical present and narrative identity
- Linking time and narrative
- Formal aspects of narrative composition
- Historical time
- Fictional narrative
- Historical consciousness
- Narrative identity
- Life and meaning
- The inscrutability of time
- Creative time
- Time and self
- Bergson and Ricoeur
- The temporality of Merleau-Ponty and the human time of Ricoeur
- Epilogue: Creative time.