Language Beyond Postmodernism: Saying and Thinking in Gendlin Philosophy

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Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Series)......Page 2
LANGUAGE BEYOND POSTMODERNISM. Saying and Thinking in Gendlin's Philosophy. Edited by David Michael Levin......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Introduction - David Michael Levin......Page 11
1. Why the Project Seems Impossible......Page 13
2. How Some Roles of Experiencing Can Be Deliberately Employed in Our Thinking......Page 21
3. The New Way Expressed in Terms of Other Philosophers......Page 45
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3. Filling in the Blanks - David Kolb......Page 75
4. Tacit Knowledge and Implicit Intricacy - William James Earle......Page 94
5. The Situatedness of Thinking, Knowing, and Speaking: Wittgenstein and Gendlin - Hans Julius Schneider......Page 107
1. General Perspectives......Page 108
2. To Say Something and to Mean It......Page 111
3. To Know-How and to Know-That......Page 116
4. Activity and Passivity......Page 121
5. Unembodied Intelligence?......Page 125
6. The Implicit Intricacy of Mind and Situation - Meredith Williams......Page 130
1. The Intricacy of Thought......Page 132
2. The Intricacy of Situation......Page 140
3. Intricacy and Patterns......Page 147
4. Conclusion......Page 152
Reply to Williams......Page 153
7. Embodied Meaning and Cognitive Science - Mark Johnson......Page 158
1. Gendlin's Project: Thinking beyond Patterns......Page 160
2. Embodied Metaphorical Meaning......Page 163
3. Gendlin's Critique of Cognitive Linguistics......Page 168
4. Meaning That Exceeds Structure......Page 175
Reply to Johnson......Page 178
1. "Experience" and "Experiencing"......Page 186
2. Levels of Meaning......Page 189
3. Gendlin and Phenomenology......Page 192
Reply to Mohanty......Page 194
1. Introduction......Page 200
2. Experience and Imposed Order......Page 205
3. Dilthey and Erlebnis......Page 214
4. Heidegger and Hermeneutic Inquiry......Page 220
5. Conclusion: Historicity and Hermeneutics......Page 227
Reply to Scharff......Page 236
10. Language and Human Nature - Lawrence J. Hatab......Page 244
Reply to Hatab......Page 256
The Project......Page 262
Language......Page 264
GendlirYs Contribution......Page 265
The Interactional Basis of Being......Page 267
Criticism of Derrida......Page 268
Gendlin's Critique of Formed Schema......Page 271
Horizonal Phenomena......Page 272
Knowing with Schema......Page 274
The More-Than-Formed......Page 275
Reply to Liberman......Page 276
12. Carrying Forward: Gadamer and Gendlin on History, Language, and the Body - Jerald Wallulis......Page 280
The Carrying Forward of Tradition......Page 281
The Life of the Language Community......Page 283
The Movement of Bodily Feeling and Language......Page 285
The Life of the Community and the Life of the Body......Page 288
Reply to Wallulis......Page 292
13. Intricacy: A Metaphysical Idea - Graeme Nicholson......Page 298
1. Formative Energy......Page 300
2. The Ontological Difference......Page 304
Reply to Nicholson......Page 309
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Reply to Foti......Page 327
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Reply to Margolis......Page 342
Works Cited......Page 349
Notes......Page 353
Contributors......Page 385