generative passivity in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy /
First Statement of Responsibility
Don Beith.
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Athens, Ohio :
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Ohio University Press,
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2018.
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1 online resource
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Series in Continental thought ;
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Number 52
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: In the Shadow of Philosophy; 1: Consciousness and Animality; 2: The Passivity of Life; 3: The Passivity of Second Nature; 4: The Intercorporeal Institution of Agency; Conclusion: The Hidden Nature of Passivity; Notes; References; Index.
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In The Birth of Sense, Don Beith proposes a new concept of generative passivity, the idea that our organic, psychological, and social activities take time to develop into sense. More than being a limit, passivity marks out the way in which organisms, persons, and interbodily systems take time in order to manifest a coherent sense.