By Stephen H. Watson
Developing the paintings he has already performed in In the Shadow of Phenomenology to deal with this hole within the literature, Stephen H. Watson extra examines the responses to Merleau-Ponty's contributions to those concerns. This booklet emphasises the old and intersubjective underpinnings of Merleau-Ponty's overdue debts, in terms of rationality, establishment and neighborhood, and examines its implications.
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T he L ong Farewell to Subject-C entered Rationality I In t h e c r u c ia l t e x t o f h is fin a l t h o u g h t . T h e Crisis o f th e E u ro p ea n Sciences, H u s s e r l a t te m p te d to a d d r e s s w h a t h e c a lle d a n a p p a r e n t p a r a d o x a n d ‘a tru ly s e r io u s d iffic u lty w h ic h a ssa ils o u r w h o le u n d e r t a k in g ’; p h c n o m c n o lo g ica lly , ‘e v e r y th in g o b je c tiv e is tr a n sfo r m e d in to s o m e t h in g su b je c tiv e ’ (K: 1 7 8 ) .
G r a n te d t h e V ieldeutigkeit o f s u c h fr a g m e n ts, t h e p r o b le m is n o t t h e d e p r iv a tio n b u t t h e p lu r a liz a tio n o f m e a n in g , t h e p o ly m o r p h is m o f B e in g . It is still tr u e in t h e c o n c l u d in g n o t e th a t ‘th e c o n c e p t io n o f h isto r y o n e w ill c o m e to w ill b e n o w is e eth ica l lik e th a t o f S a r tr e ’ (VI: 2 7 5 ) . V a lu es r e m a in n e c e s s a r y b u t in s u f f ic ie n t. W ith o u t c o lla p s in g t h e e th ic a l in t o h istory, w e r e m a in s im ila r ly c o n d e m n e d to r e sp o n sib ility , d iv id e d still, t o u s e M o n t a ig n e ’s te r m s, b e t w e e n t h e u se fu l o r t h e e x p e d ie n t (u tile ) a n d t h e h o n o r a b le (h o n e s tu m ).
C lea r ly s u c h a s y m b o lic s c a n n o t b e r e s tr ic te d to o u r c o g n it iv e h isto r y b u t a ls o in v o lv e s o u r p a s s io n s , a g a in o u r h is tr io n ic s . ’71 I f U r e m p fin d u n g su sta in s o u r p a ss io n s , it d o e s n o t d e r iv e s o le ly fr o m t h e m , in is o la tio n fr o m t h e in te r s u b je c tiv e h is t o r ie s , r o le s , a n d n a rra tiv e s b e t w e e n w h ic h e a c h b e c o m e s e x p r e s s e d as écart. A s in t h e mise en scène o f t h e th e a te r , s ig n if ic a t io n is alw ays a n o b liq u e , in te r su b je c tiv e , a n d “la te r a l” in te r v e n t io n (EC): 5 3 ) .
