The dissertation explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's model of corporeal subjectivity as arti... more The dissertation explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's model of corporeal subjectivity as articulated in the Phenomenology of Perception. I ask whether his reflective descriptions of perception, motility, libidinal attraction and gestural expressiveness are helpful for feminist thinking. I conclude that in spite of his neglect of the question of sexual difference, his ontological disclosing of our fundamental experience as a field of
Sexual differentiation is a feature of our world and human life that is of great interest to some... more Sexual differentiation is a feature of our world and human life that is of great interest to some theorists and should be of interest to more. For those who see such differentiation in a positive light, and not merely as a limitation, grounding sexual difference in a metaphysicaltheological framework, such as Trinitarian theology, is quite tempting. But such a project has many pitfalls; the impetus to hasty description and elevation of social prejudices to metaphysical truths is almost overwhelming. The essay tracks some of these pitfalls as they occur in Murphy’s paper and in the works of her main inspirations, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Pope John Paul II.
The dissertation explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's model of corporeal subjectivity as arti... more The dissertation explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's model of corporeal subjectivity as articulated in the Phenomenology of Perception. I ask whether his reflective descriptions of perception, motility, libidinal attraction and gestural expressiveness are helpful for feminist thinking. I conclude that in spite of his neglect of the question of sexual difference, his ontological disclosing of our fundamental experience as a field of
The dissertation explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's model of corporeal subjectivity as arti... more The dissertation explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's model of corporeal subjectivity as articulated in the Phenomenology of Perception. I ask whether his reflective descriptions of perception, motility, libidinal attraction and gestural expressiveness are helpful for feminist thinking. I conclude that in spite of his neglect of the question of sexual difference, his ontological disclosing of our fundamental experience as a field of
Sexual differentiation is a feature of our world and human life that is of great interest to some... more Sexual differentiation is a feature of our world and human life that is of great interest to some theorists and should be of interest to more. For those who see such differentiation in a positive light, and not merely as a limitation, grounding sexual difference in a metaphysicaltheological framework, such as Trinitarian theology, is quite tempting. But such a project has many pitfalls; the impetus to hasty description and elevation of social prejudices to metaphysical truths is almost overwhelming. The essay tracks some of these pitfalls as they occur in Murphy’s paper and in the works of her main inspirations, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Pope John Paul II.
The dissertation explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's model of corporeal subjectivity as arti... more The dissertation explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's model of corporeal subjectivity as articulated in the Phenomenology of Perception. I ask whether his reflective descriptions of perception, motility, libidinal attraction and gestural expressiveness are helpful for feminist thinking. I conclude that in spite of his neglect of the question of sexual difference, his ontological disclosing of our fundamental experience as a field of
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