(2017) Continental Philosophy Review 50 (1).
Merleau-ponty's phenomenology in the light of Kant's third critique and Schelling's real-idealismus
Sebastian Gardner
pp. 5-25
In this paper I offer a selective, systematic rather than historical account of Merleau-Ponty's highly complex relation to classical German philosophy, focussing on issues which bear on the question of his relation to transcendentalism and naturalism. I argue that the concerns which define his project in Phenomenology of Perception are fundamentally those of transcendental philosophy, and that Merleau-Ponty's disagreements with Kant, and the position he arrives at in The Visible and the Invisible, are helpfully viewed in light of (1) issues which Merleau-Ponty identifies as raised by Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgement, and (2) Schelling's conversion of Kantian idealism into a Real-Idealismus. Finally I address the question of whether, and on what basis, Merleau-Ponty's claim to have surpassed systematic philosophy can be defended.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11007-016-9393-1
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Gardner, S. (2017). Merleau-ponty's phenomenology in the light of Kant's third critique and Schelling's real-idealismus. Continental Philosophy Review 50 (1), pp. 5-25.
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