"Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf’s criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-reaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy. During the first half of the 20th century...

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1. Verfasser:	McCurry, Jeffrey 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Bloomsbury Academic 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Psychoanalytic horizons Bloomsbury collections
Schlagworte:	Merleau-Ponty, Maurice > 1908-1961 Woolf, Virginia > 1882-1941 Freud, Sigmund > 1856-1939 Unmittelbarkeit Freud, Sigmund / 1856-1939 Woolf, Virginia / 1882-1941 / Criticism and interpretation Merleau-Ponty, Maurice / 1908-1961 / Criticism and interpretation Human beings / Philosophy Philosophical anthropology Phenomenology Modernism (Literature) Merleau-Ponty, Maurice / 1908-1961 Woolf, Virginia / 1882-1941 Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Zusammenfassung:	"Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf’s criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-reaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy. During the first half of the 20th century, a profound transformation – an existential revolution – took place in European culture in how human beings conceived of themselves. Inspired by Freud’s psychoanalysis, a newfound appreciation for the realm of immediate experience in human life emerged. With Freud himself making a signal contribution to this existential revolution, and with Woolf and Merleau-Ponty taking up Freud’s ideas in their own unique ways, all three figures began to regard first-order, spontaneous, direct, unselfconscious, concrete experience of self and world as standing at the heart of what it means to be human. Jeffrey McCurry describes how this new state of affairs stood in contrast to how immediate experience had been historically dismissed, devalued, repressed, and even negated in the fields of psychology, literature, and philosophy. This experience posed dangers to psychological stability, social order, and philosophical certainty. McCurry examines how Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, Woolf’s modernist criticism and fiction, and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, psychology, literature, and philosophy in turns embraced the risks and dangers of putting immediate experience as the center of humanity, of respecting, understanding, appreciating, and following the lead of immediate, spontaneous, pre-reflective, pre-evaluative, concrete experience in human life."
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten)
ISBN:	9798765107232 9798765107218 9798765107225
DOI:	10.5040/9798765107232