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By Edouard Morot-Sir

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"Like a musical fugue, Morot-Sir's meditations lead as much as extraordinary grand conclusions on faith and the humanities as common referents. . . . during this dense and exquisitely erudite essay, the writer returns to the philosophical start line of his expert profession, as expressed in his thèse d'état on La Pensée negative (1947). with no overly simplifying his process, you may qualify it as a sort of vector research of referential practices. Central to his proposal is the anomaly that reference (and with it, language) can yet confer with itself. both crucial is his 'will--if wavering at times--to stay a coherent and obdurate prisoner of language,' i.e., systematically to discover the total variety of linguistic adventure, the dynamics of the act of naming. utilizing once more the meditation as his hottest mode of expression, Morot-Sir bargains during this moment quantity a becoming supplement to the demanding situations he issued and the expectancies he raised in quantity I of The mind's eye of Reference." --Raymond Gay-Crosier, college of Florida

on the convergence of philosophy and psychology, this paintings maintains the enterprise of "meditating the linguistic situation" which Edouard Morot-Sir started in The mind's eye of Reference, this time focusing on "perceiving, indicating, naming." jointly, the 2 volumes represent the highbrow autobiography of a thinker and his reaction to Merleau-Ponty's well-known ebook on phenomenology.
While the 1st ebook tested mental, ontological, and epistemological presuppositions, this one explores the optimistic effects of reference in motion, with examples from faith, portray, and poetry. Morot-Sir visualizes human mind's eye as a box marked through 4 corners: conception, notion, reminiscence, and judgment. performing as element of intersection and heart of gravitation within the heart of that box, reference ultimately reclaims the primacy of imagination. "We are namers and nameds," he concludes. "Without names we'd be blind, deaf, and mute."

Edouard Morot-Sir, who died in 1993, was once the Kenan Professor Emeritus of French on the collage of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the writer of the spouse quantity, The mind's eye of Reference: Meditating the Linguistic (UPF, 1993). He used to be additionally the writer of many articles and books, together with La Pensée destructive, Philosophie et mystique, los angeles Métaphysique de Pascal, and Les Mots de Jean-Paul Sartre. He taught common sense and the philosophy of technological know-how on the universities of Bordeaux and Lille and served for twelve years because the cultural counselor to the French Embassy within the United States.

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