THE HORIZONS OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY MARTINUS NIJHOFF PHILOSOPHY LIBRARY VOLUME 30 For a complete list of volumes in this series see final page of this volume. The Horizons of Continental Philosophy Essays on Husser!, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty edited by Hugh J. Silverman State University of New York at Stony Brook Algis Mickunas Ohio University Theodore Kisiel Northern Illinois University Alphonso Lingis The Pennsylvania State University 1988 SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The Horizons Qf continental phllosophy essays on Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty I editors, Hugh J. Silverman ... [et al. 1. p. cm. -- (Martinus Nljhoff phi losophy l ibrary ; v. 30) Inc ludes index. ISBN 978-90-481-8308-1 ISBN 978-94-017-3350-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-3350-2 1. Philosophy, Modern--20th century. 2. Husserl, Edmund. 1859-1938. 3. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. 4. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961. 1. Silverman, Hugh J. II. Series. B804.H726 1988 190--dc19 87-33798 CIP ISBN 978-90-481-8308-1 Copyright © 1988 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Origina11y published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1988 An rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permis sion of the publishers, Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V. PUBLICATIONS BOARD General Editor Hugh J. Silverman Volume Editors Algis Mickunas (Husserl Circle) Theodore Kisiel (Heidegger Conference) Alphonso Lingis Circle) (~lerleau-Ponty Publications Committee Members Theodore Ki s i e1 Alphonso Lingis Al gi s Mi ckunas John Sallis Hugh J. Silverman Stephen H. Watson TABLE OF CONTENTS About the Editors ix Acknowledgements xi INTRODUCTION On Broadening Philosophical Horizons xiii Hugh J. Silverman PART ONE: HUSSERL 1. Questions of Method: On Describing the Individual as Exemplary 3 Jose Huertas-Jourda 2. The Necessity of Intersubjectivity 32 Kathleen M. Haney 3. Existence and Essence in Thomas and Husserl 62 James R. Mensch 4. A Phenomenological Exploration of Popper's 'World 3' 93 Lenore Langsdorf and Harry Reeder PART TWO: HEIDEGGER 5. Dwelling 133 Eugene T. Gendlin 6. Textuality and the Origin of the Work of Art 153 Hugh J. Silverman viii Contents 7. On the Occlusion of the Subject: Heidegger and Lacan 168 Wilhelm S. Wurzer 8. From the Deconstruction of Hermeneutics to the Hermeneutics of Deconstruction 190 John D. Caputo PART THREE: MERLEAU-PONTY 9. Communication Science and Merleau-Ponty's Critique of the Objectivist Illusion 205 Richard L. Lanigan 10. Merleau-Ponty: The Depth of as the ~lemory Depth of the World 227 Gl en A. Mazi s 11. Towards an Erotics of Art 251 All en S. We; ss 12. Merleau-Ponty on Silence and the Work of Philosophy 272 Veronique F6t; Notes on Contributors 289 Index 293 ABOUT THE EDITORS THE GENERAL EDITOR HUGH J. SILVERMAN is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York @ Stony Brook. Author of Inscriptions: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1987). editor of Piaget. Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Humanities. 1980). co-editor of Jean-Paul Sartre: Contemporary Approaches to His Philosophy (Duquesne. 1980). Continental PhilosophY in America (Duquesne. 1983). Descriptions (SUNY Press. 1985). Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (SUNY Press. 1985). Critical and Dialectical Phenomenology (SUNY Press. 1987). Postmodernism and Continental PhilosophY (SUNY Press. 1988) and translator of various works by Merleau-Ponty. he is editor of a new series published by Routledge and Kegan Paul eatitled Continental Philosophy. He taught previously at Stanford University and has been Visiting Professor at New York University. Duquesne University. the University of Warwick (England). and the University of Nice (France). He served as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy from 1980-1986 and is currently Executive Director of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature. ix x THE VOLUME EDITORS PART ONE: HUSSERL ALGIS MICKUNAS is Professor of Philosophy at Ohio University. He is author (with John R. Scudder) of Meaning. Dialogue. and Enculturation: Phenomenological PhilosophY of Education (University Press of America. 1985) and (with David Stewart) Exploring Phenomenology (American Library Assoc •• 1974). He has published numerous articles including "The Transcendental. the Hermeneutical. and the Semiotic." Aus1egung. 1983. He has translated Elisabeth Stroeker's Philosophical Investigations of Space (Ohio University Press. 1985) and (with Noel Barstad) Jean Gebser's The Ever-Present Origin (Ohio Univ. Press. 1986). PART TWO: HEIDEGGER THEODORE KISIEL is Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Illinois. He is the trans lator of Martin Heidegger's History of the Concept of Time (Indiana University Press). as well as Werner Marx's Heidegger and the Tradition (Northwestern University Press). He co-edited Phenomenology and the Natural Sciences. with Joseph J. Kockelmans (Northwestern University Press). His other publications include "Ars Inveniendi: A Classical Source For Contemporary Philosophy of Science." International Revue of Philosophy. 1980. "Heidegger: The Transformation of the Categoria1." in Continental Philosophy in America (1983), and "A Diagramatic Approach to Heidegger's Schematism of Existence. Philosophy Today. Fall 1984. II PART THREE: MERLEAU-PONTY ALPHONSO LINGIS is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Excesses: Eros and Culture (State University of New York Press. 1983). Libido: The French Existential Theories (Indiana University Press. 1985). and Phenomenological Explanations (Nijhoff. 1986). His translations include Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible and Levinas' Totality and Infinity and Existence and Existents. He is also editor of The Collected Papers of Emmanuel (Nijhoff. 1986). L~vinas ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Grateful acknowledgement to Stephen Watson and the University of Notre Dame for providing the final typescript of this volume. The Philosophy Department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook supplied necessary xeroxing facilities. James Hatley expertly prepared the Index. The members of the Husserl Circle. Heidegger Conference. and the Merleau-Ponty Circle are to be thanked for their pat1ence as we have brought these essays 1nto f1nal form and completed the volume for ult1mate publication. Especial thanks to Alexander Schimmelpenninck of Martinus Nijhoff Publishers for his encouragement and support. xi