Dialogue With the World The Concept of Body According to Merleau-Ponty and Ramanuja

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ANTECEDENTS TO THE EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF M. MERLEAU-PONTY TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN PHILOSOPHY . . 6 THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL MOVEMENT ............... 6 . THE BIRTH OF A PHILOSOPHY OF CONCRETE EXISTENCE .............................. 21 EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY AS A PHILOSOPHY OF INCARNATE EXISTENCE . . 35 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY . . 37 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF MERLEAU-PONTY THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BODY IN THE EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF MERLEAU-PONTY THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BODY IN MERLEAU-PONTY 54 THE BODY AS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SELF ....... 54 A CRITIQUE OF THE DIFFERENT APPROACHES OF SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY TO THE BODY FROM THE BODY-SOUL DICHOTOMY TO INCARNATE SPIRIT ................... 79 THE BODY AS THE EXPRESSION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ................. 87 THE BODY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY ............... 101 THE CONCEPT OF `FLESH` AND THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE WORLD .......... 109 THE WORLD DIMENSION OF THE BODY THE LIVED-BODY AS THE PRIMORDIAL UNITY ....... 112 THE HISTORY OF THE EMBODIED SUBJECT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD ...... 123 THE ROLE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY IN TRANSFORMING THE WORLD ............ 128 TEMPORALITY AND THE UNFOLDING OF MEANING IN THE WORLD ............... 130 THE WORLD-BOUND ABSOLUTE .................... 133 3.5.1. The Silence of God .......................... 136 EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY AS A PHILOSOPHY OF ENGAGEMENT IN AND DETACHMENT FROM THE WORLD ...................... 140 MERLEAU-PONTY`S EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY A CREATIVE CONVERGENCE ............ 147 THE PLACE OF RAMANUJA AND VlSlSTADVAITA IN THE INDIAN PHILOSOPHICAL SCENE VEDANTA PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM ................ 153 THE ADVAITA VEDANTA OF SANKARA .............. 156 THE DVAITA VEDANTA OF MADHVA ................ 165 VAISNAVISM ...................................... 173 THE ALVARS ...................................... 180 NATHAMUNI AND YAMUNACARYA ................. 182 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RAMANUJA .............. 183 VISISTADVAITA OF RAMANUJA : PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE OF BODY AND THE WORLD MEANING OF VISISTADVAITA ...................... 187 VAINAVISM AND VISISTADVAITA .................. 189 THE VISISTADVAITA EP1STEMOLOGY: THEORY OF PRAMANAS THE VISISTADVAITA METAPHYSICS ................ 210 THE CONCEPT OF RELATION ....................... 222 CAUSE AND EFFECT ............................... 224 H1TA AND PURUSARTHA ACCORDING TO THE VISISTADVAITA THE VISISTADVAITA CONCEPT OF GOD ............. 232