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Topologies of the Flesh A Multidimensional Exploration of the Lifeworld

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ISBN-10: 0821416766

ISBN-13: 9780821416761

Edition: 2006

Authors: Steven M. Rosen

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The concept of "flesh" in philosophical terms derives from the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This was the word he used to name the concrete realm of sentient bodies and life processes that has been eclipsed by the abstractions of science, technology, and modern culture. Topology, to conventional understanding, is the branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the properties of geometric figures that stay the same when the figures are stretched or deformed. Topologies of the Flesh is an original blend of continental thought and mathematical imagination. Steven M. Rosen opens up a new area of philosophical inquiry: topological phenomenology. Through his unique application of…    
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List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 3/28/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Preface
The Way into the Lifeworld
Preview of the Chapters
Acknowledgments
Topology and Dimensional Flesh
Introduction to Topological Phenomenology
Modern Topology in Historical Perspective
Core Assumptions of Modernist Topology
Post-Lacanian Applications of Topology
From Postmodern Topology to Topological Phenomenology
The Topology of the Flesh
Phenomenology and the Flesh of the World
Embodying the Flesh through Topology
Concrete Realization of Topological Flesh
Conclusion
Lower Dimensions of the Flesh
Preamble
Introduction to the Lower Dimensions
Being and Appropriation
The Topodimensional Family
Summation
Dimensional Ontogeny
The Three Basic Stages of Ontogeny
Individuation as ontogeny
Individuation as Ontogeny
Topodimensional Analysis of the Basic Stages
Co-evolving Lifeworlds
Setting the Matrix in Motion
The Cyclonic Nature of Onto-dimensional Process
Distilling the Lower Dimensions
Introduction
The Fourth Order of Dimensional Flesh: Human Cognition
The Third Order of Dimensional Flesh: Animal Emotion
The Second Order of Dimensional Flesh: Vegetative Sensuality
The First Order of Dimensional Flesh: Mineral Intuition
Co-evolving Lifeworlds Fleshed Out
Phylo-functional Distillation of the Topodimensional Spiral
The Noncognitive Quaternities
Fourfold Emotional Flesh
Fourfold Sensuous Flesh
Fourfold Intuitive Flesh
Gyrations of Co-evolving Flesh
Cycles of Divergence: Self-Appropriation
Cycles of Convergence: Proprioception
Dimensional Self-Signification
Cognitive Self-Signification
Cognitive-Emotional Self-Signification
Cognitive-Emotional-Sensuous Self-Signification
Embryonic Self-Signification in the Unus Mundus
Notes
Bibliography
Index