scholarly journals Merleau-Ponty: Language, sense, being

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-185
Author(s):  
Milomir Eric

In this study, the author deals with the analysis of the way in which the problem of the sense of language is set and solved in the phenomenological philosophy of M. Merleau-Ponty. At the beginning of the text, there is a link between the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure?s and Merleau-Ponty?s understanding of language. Then the attention is drawn to the understanding of language within the philosophy of existence, the problem of the relation between a mark and the marked, language and a painting, literature and painting. The final considerations are devoted to Merleau-Ponty?s attempt to establish an indirect ontology in the unfinished work The Visible and the Invisible, a new understanding of the relation between flesh and language, the problem of logos, the problem of the relation of the perceptual and linguistic meaning.

Author(s):  
John Collins

This chapter has three major tasks. Firstly, I show how the conception of linguistic pragmatism on offer squares with certain features of standard truth-conditional approaches to meaning, especially as regards compositionality. Secondly, pace some recent semantic proposals, I argue that the properties of the Saxon genitive (e.g., Sally’s car) and adnominal adjectival attributions (e.g., red pen) are referentially open in the way I argued in the previous chapter. The third task involves sketching the kind of role I take syntax to play in fixing linguistic meaning and how the argument-adjunct distinction operates in regards to my core claims.


Hypatia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Waniek

The author investigates the notion of linguistic meaning in gender research. She approaches this basic problem by drawing upon two very different conceptions of language and meaning: (1) that of the logician Gottlob Frege and (2) that of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Motivated by the controversial response the Anglo-American sex/gender debate received within the German context, the author focuses on the connection between this epistemological controversy among feminists and two discursive traditions of linguistic meaning (analytic philosophy and poststructuralism), to show how philosophy of language can contribute to current feminist debates.


Author(s):  
Grant Gillett ◽  
Patrick Seniuk

This article combines an evolutionary perspective with phenomenological philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. Neuroscience addresses the way the brain connects individuals to domains of adaptation, while Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of perception explores the way sense situates humans the world. In particular, his concept “the intentional arc” captures the basic structure of embodied mental life through purposeful action. The processes of “sedimentation” and the neuroscience of ontogeny offer a perspective on the development of cortical and subcortical neural circuits that are in to-and-fro communication with the lived body. This dynamic sheds light on the genesis of a psychological life, structures of attunement, and capacity for adaptation to the world, which are all vulnerable to disruption in psychiatric disorder.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Nerijus Milerius

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama vadinamoji panmontažinė kino nuostata, kuri montažą traktuoja ne kaip paprastą techninį kino elementą, o kaip būdą montuoti kinematografinius vaizdus, mąstymą, pasaulėžiūrą, istoriją ir kt. Straipsnyje argumentuojama, kad tokios panmontažinės nuostatos ištakos glūdi ne kine. Kaip tokios ikikinematografinės panmontažinės nuostatos pavyzdys analizuojamas literatūrinis prancūzų rašytojo Gustave’o Flaubert’o romano Ponia Bovari fragmentas. Jau šiame fragmente yra akivaizdi literatūrinio montažo strategija atverti daugiau, nei tai pajėgtų realizuoti tiesioginis aprašymas. Kinematografinis montažas pasiskolina šią strategiją ir nuolat deklaruoja ambiciją pasiekti to, kas nematoma, to, ko negalima pavaizduoti, ribas. Tai, ko negalima pavaizduoti, – intervalas – tampa priemone žengti anapus siaurai suvokiamo vaizdo ir paversti montažą specifine mąstymo ar eksponavimo forma.Straipsnyje argumentuojama, kad tokia panmontažinė strategija yra esmiškas modernybės elementas. Pasiremiant ankstyvųjų montažo klasikų Griffitho ir Eizenšteino pavyzdžiais, parodoma, kaip montažo procedūrose intervalas („nematoma“) panaudojamas konstruojant tai, kas matoma. Atskleidžiama, kad intervalas („nematoma“) tampa vienu esminių kriterijų, pagal kurį galima klasifikuoti skirtingas montažo mokyklas ir skirtingus montažo tipus.Konstatuojama, kad su laiku kinas atsisakė panmontažinės ambicijos paversti montažą universaliu prasmingos visumos konstravimo principu. Vis dėlto ir dabar kino teorijoje ir praktikoje gausu tokių interpretacijų, kurios traktuoja montažą kaip matymo („parodymo“) būdą, pranokstantį techniškai ir siaurai suvokiamo montažo ribas.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: montažas, intervalas, matoma-nematoma, modernybė. THE ONTOLOGY OF MONTAGE AND BEYOND ITNerijus MileriusSummaryThe article deals with the so-called pan-aesthetical ambition of montage (editing) according to which montage is not a merely technical element of a film, but the way to edit cinematic images, thinking, worldview, history, etc. It is argued that the origins of such pan-aesthetics of montage could be found primarily not in cinema itself. As an example of such pre-cinematographic notion of montage pan-aesthetics, a fragment of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary could be analyzed. It’s already in this fragment where the ambition of the literary montage to disclose much more than a simple literary description could manage is evident. Cinematic montage borrows this strategy 42 Religija ir kultūra Nerijus Milerius and always declares the ambition to reach the limits of the visible and the presentable. Something that could not be depicted, the interval, becomes the means to go beyond the technical understanding of montage and to transform it into a peculiar form of thinking or exposition. It is argued in the article that such panaesthetic strategy is the very element of modernity. Referring to the excerpts from the films of Griffith and Eisenstein, it is demonstrated how the invisible (the interval) is used in the construction of the visible. The invisible (theinterval) becomes the most essential criterion to classify the schools or types of montage. It is concluded that cinema abandons its ambition to transform the montage into the universal principle of constructing the whole. Nevertheless, also in the contemporary cinema, one could find the interpretations of montage according to which the montage is something more, something that surpasses the technical procedure of a mere editing.Keywords: montage, interval, visible–invisible, modernity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Vernadakis

In E. M. Forster’s ‘The Story of the Siren’ (1920), humility and the humble are highlighted by the empowering status bestowed on an embedded story told by an illiterate Sicilian boatman to a sophisticated English tourist and prospective Cambridge Fellow. The latter, who is also the narrator of the embedding narrative, proves to be transformed by the qualities (philosophic, ethical and literary) promoted by the humble status of the embedded one. As the existence of the Siren of the title is problematic – she never shows up – and the story offers a case of structuring a full intrigue on the invisible, there may be a connection between the humble and the invisible. In order to investigate this assumption, I propose to explore the way in which the myth of the siren, a myth that relates to desire, is brought into dialogue with Frazer’s evolutionary theory and Plato’s theory of ideas. The interplay between philosophy, anthropology and desire provides a critique of Edwardian society and a self-criticism based on Socratic irony, itself an irony of humility. I shall eventually suggest that the humble but desirable Sicilian storyteller functions like an avatar of the Siren. Instead of writing a dissertation on the Deist Controversy and becoming an academic, the homodiegetic narrator allows himself to be seduced by the ‘Siren’s song’ – the young Sicilian’s story – and (ironically) become a writer. For, as I will attempt to demonstrate, the relationship between this short story and the life of E. M. Forster is highlighted by the figure of metalepsis, a device that reveals the author, rather than the narrator, at work.


Ung Uro ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 99-106
Author(s):  
Martine Hoff Jensen

Touching is never a unidirectional event; what you touch will always touch you back. ‘How can the way we relate to the world around us take shape as sculpture?’ Norwegian artist Marte Johnslien asks. In the 2018 exhibition A Square on a Sphere at Lillehammer Kunstmuseum (Art Museum), Johnslien showed, amongst other works, a sculpture consisting of ceramic shapes stacked on top of each other with glass plates between. In this work, Johnslien explored a new technique of reinforcing ceramics in which she put steel mesh underneath the clay. By strengthening the thin ceramic shapes with iron, Johnslien changed the material and thus changed the texture. This chapter elaborates on how artistic presence can provide a way to access the glitch between the visible and the invisible, by exploring the ceramic works by Johnslien in light of Barad’s essay on touching, esotericist Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky’s view on the fourth dimension, Eastern philosophy, and relativity theory.


Author(s):  
Lorena Clara Mihăeş ◽  
Anda Dimitriu

The present chapter looks at the way fear is depicted in Soderbergh's 2011 thriller Contagion and how the onlooker is dragged along into feeling the fear. Without using a studio to shoot the scenes, without insisting much on characters, employing hyperlink narrative (scenes change quickly, playing with geographical distant places and interweaving storylines between multiple characters) and using few words, the movie's main character is not the invisible virus but the fear it spreads into the characters, growing and turning into mass hysteria. The aim of this chapter is to analyse how narrative immersion works in Contagion through visual, auditory, and emotional elements, which are used by the director as vehicles for instilling fear in the audience.


Author(s):  
Poongodi Thangamuthu ◽  
Anu Rathee ◽  
Suresh Palanimuthu ◽  
Balamurugan Balusamy

Cybercrime is a computer-oriented crime where offences are committed against an individual person or group of persons with a criminal intention to harm the victim either physically or psychologically, directly or indirectly, using IT devices via internet. It may threaten an individual or a financial health and even a nation's security by intercepting or disclosing the confidential information. The various forms of cybercrime are phishing, identity theft, hacking websites, spreading terrorism, distributing child pornography, etc. Cybercrime does not require any higher-level technical knowledge but only sufficient financial support to perform the unethical process. The current demand for malware creation exceeds three times the supply, and now, new tools are arriving with the concept of “malware as a service.” The deep web is the invisible web that paves the way for various criminal activities like weapon trading, cybercrime, and drugs.


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