First Nature. The Problem of Nature in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty

Alessio Rotundo obtained his doctorate in philosophy from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh in 2020. He studied philosophy at the University of Turin in Italy, the University of Heidelberg in Germany, the University of Kentucky under the Baden-Württemberg Stipendium, and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris supported by the Bourse Chateaubriand. He has served as Adjunct Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana and Loyola University New Orleans. His research interests and publications focus on topics in twentieth-century Continental philosophy and the history of modern and contemporary philosophy, especially in the fields of phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics.

• List of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Stating the Problem1 Preliminary Remarks2 Historical Contextualization3 Renewed Setting of the Problem1 Natura Sub Specie Structurae1 Science between Technocracy and Aesthetics2 The Disinterested and the Interested Onlooker3 Naturizing and Naturized Consciousness4 Phenomenology between Husserl and Merleau-Ponty2 Pathway to First NatureOperative Intentionality from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty1 Introduction2 Phenomenology as Redoing of Transcendental Philosophy3 Cartesian “Realism”4 The Genetic Turn in Phenomenology5 Operative Intentionality6 Brief Methodic Reflection on the “Idea of Being” in Phenomenology7 The Prejudice of the World8 Operative Intentionality as Temporalizing9 The Project of the Phenomenology of Perception as Enquiry into Operative Intentionality10 The Discovery of Contingency and Transcendental Philosophy: Descartes and Kant11 The Body Schema: Phenomenology of Perception I12 The Notion of Spatial Level: Phenomenology of Perception II13 Merleau-Ponty and Kant on Space3 Orders of Experience1 Introduction: The Eidetic of Experience and Language2 Approaches to Language3 The Act of Speech4 Language as Ontological Experience5 Speaking of Fundamentals: The Promise of Language6 Language and the Lifeworld: General Points from Phenomenology7 The Problem of Einströmen8 The Modal Ontology of the World9 History in Lifeworld Phenomenology4 Mundus SensibilisStructural Ontology between Merleau-Ponty and the New Philosophy of Science1 Introduction2 Ontic Structural Realism3 Syntactic and Semantic Views4 Invariance between Physics and Phenomenology5 Physics Deformalized6 Observation and Objectivation7 The Passage of Nature8 Natural Dynamis between Physics and Perception9 The Praxis of Nature, or What the Things Do5 Nature and Logos 1 Introduction: Animal Nature2 Biology and Ontology 3 Organic Totality4 The Ontology of the Umwelt: Uexküll’s Notion of Umwelt5 Behavior, Consciousness, and World 6 The Bivalent Ontology of the Umwelt7 The Sphere of Life as Sphere of Intercorporeity8 Towards a Philosophy in Double Dimensionality: Merleau-Ponty’s Esthesiology6 The Institution of Nature1 Introduction: Phenomenological Ontology and the Institution of Nature2 Nature as Empirical and Transcendental Genesis3 Towards Totality: Perceptual Faith and the Flesh4 Tying It All Together: Nature as Leaf of BeingBibliographical References and Works CitedIndex