The Intercorporeal Self, livre ebook

Challenging a prevalent Western idea of the self as a discrete, interior consciousness, Scott L. Marratto argues instead that subjectivity is a characteristic of the living, expressive movement establishing a dynamic intertwining between a sentient body and its environment. He draws on the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, contemporary European philosophy, and research in cognitive science and development to offer a compelling investigation into what it means to be a self.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Situation and the Embodied Mind
I. Mind, Self, World
Representation
Behavior
Situated Cognition
II. Perception
Sensation
Spatiality
III. Situated Subjectivity
2. Making Space
I. Subjectivity, Sensation, and Depth
Affordance Depth
Spectral Depth
Spatial ‘Levels’
Time, Space, and Sensation
The Depth of the Past
II. Learning
3. Subjectivity and the ‘Style’ of the World
I. The ‘Subject’ and the ‘World’ of Situated Cognition
Sensorimotor Laws
Sensorimotor Subjectivity
Ecological Laws
Ecological Subjectivity
II. Perception and Subjectivity beyond Metaphysics
4. Auto-affection and Alterity
I. Presence
The ‘Privilege’ of the Present
Auto-affection
II. The Deconstruction of Presence
Derrida’s Appraisal of Husserl’s Phenomenology
Derrida on the Lived Body (‘Leib’; ‘le corps propre’)
Derrida’s Deconstruction of ‘Intercorporeity’
III. Auto-hetero-affection in Merleau-Ponty
Intercorporeity and Intersubjectivity
Body Schema
Auto-hetero-affection as the Advent of the Intercorporeal Body
5. Ipseity and Language
I. Language and Gesture
The Tacit Cogito
Perceptual Meaning and Natural Expression
The Paradox of Expression
Institution
II. Diacritical Intercorporeity
III. Expression and Subjectivity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index