Locke Patricia M. - Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture

Merleau-Ponty

SERIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT

Editorial Board

Ted Toadvine, Chairman, University of Oregon

Michael Barber, Saint Louis University

Elizabeth A. Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body

David Carr, Emory University

James Dodd, New School University

Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University

Sara Heinmaa, University of Jyvskyl, University of Helsinki

Jos Huertas-Jourda, Wilfrid Laurier University

Joseph J. Kockelmans, Pennsylvania State University

William R. McKenna, Miami University

Algis Mickunas, Ohio University

J. N. Mohanty, Temple University

Dermot Moran, University College Dublin

Thomas Nenon, University of Memphis

Rosemary Rizo-Patron de Lerner, Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Per, Lima

Thomas M. Seebohm, Johannes Gutenberg Universitt, Mainz

Gail Soffer, Rome, Italy

Elizabeth Strker, Universitt Kln

Nicolas de Warren, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Richard M. Zaner, Vanderbilt University

International Advisory Board

Suzanne Bachelard, Universit de Paris

Rudolf Boehm, Rijksuniversiteit Gent

Albert Borgmann, University of Montana

Amedeo Giorgi, Saybrook Institute

Richard Grathoff, Universitt Bielefeld

Samuel Ijsseling, Husserl-Archief te Leuven

Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University

Werner Marx, Albert-Ludwigs Universitt, Freiburg

David Rasmussen, Boston College

John Sallis, Boston College

John Scanlon, Duquesne University

Hugh J. Silverman, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Carlo Sini, Universit di Milano

Jacques Taminiaux, Louvain-la-Neuve

D. Lawrence Wieder

Dallas Willard, University of Southern California

Merleau-Ponty

Space, Place, Architecture

EDITED BY

PATRICIA M. LOCKE AND RACHEL MCCANN

OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

ATHENS

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Merleau-Ponty (Ohio University Press)

Merleau-Ponty : space, place, architecture / edited by Patricia M. Locke and Rachel McCann.

pages cm. (Series in continental thought ; no. 48)

Summary: Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Pontys thought to architectural theory and practice is well established. Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture is a vibrant collection of original essays by twelve eminent philosophers who mine Merleau-Pontys work to consider how we live and create as profoundly spatial beings. The resulting collection is essential to philosophers and creative artists as well as those concerned with the pressing ethical issues of our time. Each contributor presents a different facet of space, place, or architecture. These essays carve paths from Merleau-Ponty to other thinkers such as Irigaray, Deleuze, Ettinger, and Piaget. As the first collection devoted specifically to developing Merleau-Pontys contribution to our understanding of place and architecture, this book will speak to philosophers interested in the problem of space, architectural theorists, and a wide range of others in the arts and design communityProvided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8214-2175-8 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-8214-4536-5 (pdf)

1. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 19081961. 2. ArchitecturePhilosophy. I. Locke, Patricia M., editor. II. McCann, Rachel, editor. III. Title.

NA2500.M419 2015

720.1dc23

2015030038

Patricia M. Locke dedicates this work to

Michael Coursey Jr. and Julia M. Coursey,

two creative and inspiring thinkers.

Rachel McCann dedicates this work to

Alex Lewis, Adrian Lewis, and Joshua Gray,

three men whose wild being echoes deeply

within the flesh of the world.

CONTENTS

Patricia M. Locke

Glen A. Mazis

Galen A. Johnson

Edward S. Casey

Randall Johnson

David Morris

Dorothea E. Olkowski

Lisa Guenther

D. R. Koukal

Rachel McCann

Suzanne Cataldi Laba

Nancy A. Barta-Smith

Helen A. Fielding

ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviated references for Merleau-Pontys texts are below. Where an author refers to both the English translation and the original French, we have placed the English page(s) first, followed by the French page(s). For example: The question of where was not to be asked (EM, 141/68). Where more than one English translation exists, refer to each chapters bibliography for the version used.