Habitual Identity and Transformative Experience in Merleau-Ponty
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003332466-13" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003332466-13</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Habitual Identity and Transformative Experience in Merleau-Ponty
Original language description
To what extent can our individual identity be described as habitual? In addressing this question, the present article draws on Merleau-Ponty and gathers some observations on the relevance and limitations of the term "habitual identity" (both personal and social). The impossibility to merge identity and habituality is due, among other reasons, to the fact that a person's identity is co-determined by non-recurrent experiences that cannot be dealt with by relying on habitual behavior. The focus is on Merleau-Ponty's account of three types of transformative experiences (loss, personal transformation, and decision). In his analysis of existence as largely transcending habituality, Merleau-Ponty emphasizes continuity. Therefore, in the conclusion, the article addresses the objection that Merleau-Ponty is an irredeemable continuist who lacks a sense for novelty and alterity. Contrary to this criticism, it is shown that Merleau-Ponty's descriptive approach makes his ideas useful for analyzing the possible closures inherent in social identities. The reason for the criticism lies rather in Merleau-Ponty's qualification of habituality as pre-reflexivity only, which leads him to neglect the possibility of developing habits of reflexivity and non-identity, and in the missing phenomenology of plurality and conflict.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Phenomenology of Broken Habits. Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Habitual Action
ISBN
978-1-03-236527-5
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
184-205
Number of pages of the book
326
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York - London
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