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Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

By: Dorothea E. Olkowski

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Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

By: Dorothea E. Olkowski

A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to the study of consciousness: “Beautifully written, engaging throughout, and captivating” (Claire Colebrook, The Pennsylvania State University). What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that mathematics itself—the historic link between science and philosophy—plays a fundamental role in the development of the worldviews that drive both fields. Focusing on language, its usage and expression of worldview, she develops a phenomenological account of human thought and action to explicate the role of philosophy in the sciences. Olkowski proposes a model of phenomenology, both scientific and philosophical, that helps make sense of reality and composes an ethics for dealing with unpredictability in our world.

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Indiana University Press

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Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

By: Dorothea E. Olkowski

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Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty

The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception

By: Dorothea E. Olkowski

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The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception

By: Dorothea E. Olkowski

Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception offers the only full-length examination of the relationships between Deleuze, Bergson and Merleau-Ponty. Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), and Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) succeeded one another as leading voices in French philosophy over a span of 136 years. Their relationship to one another's work involved far more than their overlapping lifetimes. Bergson became both the source of philosophical insight and a focus of criticism for Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze. Deleuze criticized Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology as well as his interest in cognitive and natural science. Author Dorothea Olkowski points out that each of these philosophers situated their thought in relation to their understandings of crucial developments and theories taken up in the history and philosophy of science, and this has been difficult for Continental philosophy to grasp. She articulates the differences between these philosophers with respect to their disparate approaches to the physical sciences and with how their views of science function in relation to their larger philosophical projects. In Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Olkowski examines the critical areas of the structure of time and memory, the structure of consciousness, and the question of humans' relation to nature. She reveals that these philosophers are working from inside one another's ideas and are making strong claims about time, consciousness, reality, and their effects on humanity that converge and diverge. The result is a clearer picture of the intertwined workings of Continental philosophy and its fundamental engagement with the sciences.

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Indiana University Press

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0253054729

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Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation

By: Dorothea Olkowski

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Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation

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Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Deleuze, she says, accomplished the "ruin of representation," the complete overthrow of hierarchic, organic thought in philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and ethics, as well as in society at large. In Deleuze's philosophy of difference, she discovers the source of a new ontology of change, which in turn opens up the creation of new modes of life and thought, not only in philosophy and feminism but wherever creation is at stake. The work of contemporary artist Mary Kelly has been central to Olkowski's thinking. In Kelly she finds an artist at work whose creative acts are in themselves the ruin of representation as a whole, and the text is illustrated with Kelly's art. This original and provocative account of Deleuze contributes significantly to a critical feminist politics and philosophy, as well as to an understanding of feminist art.

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Univ of California Press

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0520420500

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9780520420502

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

By: Dorothea Olkowski,Gail Weiss

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Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

By: Dorothea Olkowski,Gail Weiss

Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings to feminist theory. But there has been little agreement on how Merleau-Ponty's ideas ultimately have an impact on feminist philosophy. The essays presented here attempt to situate Merleau-Ponty in the larger context of feminist theory.

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Penn State Press

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027102917X

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Book's by Dorothea E. Olkowski

Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty

Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty

Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation

Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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