Dialogue With the World The Concept of the 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 ........ 7 THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL MOVEMENT .................... 7 THE BIRTH OF A PHILOSOPHY OF CONCRETE EXISTENCE . ... 22 EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY AS A PHILOSOPHY OF INCARNATE EXISTENCE ......... 35 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY ........ 38 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF MERLEAU-PONTY .......... 42 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 ..................... 78 THE BODY AS THE EXPRESSION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE .................. 86 THE BODY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY ................. 99 THE CONCEPT OF `FLESH` AND THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE WORLD ............. THE WORLD DIMENSION OF THE BODY THE LIVED-BODY AS THE PRIMORDIAL UNITY ............. 110 THE HISTORY OF THE EMBODIED SUBJECT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD .......... 121 THE ROLE OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY IN TRANSFORMING THE WORLD ............... 126 TEMPORALITY AND THE UNFOLDING OF MEANING IN THE WORLD .................. 128 THE WORLD-BOUND ABSOLUTE .................... 131 EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY AS A PHILOSOPHY OF ENGAGEMENT IN AND DETACHMENT FROM THE WORLD ....................... 138 MERLEAU-PONTY`S EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY: A CREATIVE CONVERGENCE ................ 145 THE VISISTADVAITA OF RAMANUJA : PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE OF THE BODY AND THE WORLD THE MEANING OF VISISTADVAITA ....................... 150 VAISNAVISM AND VISISTADVAITA ...................... 152 THE VISISTADVAITA EPISTEMOLOGY THEORY OF PRAMAtfAS ........................ 154 THE CONCEPT OF THE BODY IN THE VISISTADVAITA OF RAMANUJA THE CONCEPT OF BODY ( RIRA) .................... 173 THE UNIVERSE AS THE BODY OF BRAHMAN ........... 176 THE ORIGIN OF THE BODY FROM BRAHMAN AND THE NATURE OF CAUSALITY AT WORK ........ 178 THE NATURE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BRAHMAN AND THE UNIVERSE ...................... 188 THE CHANGELESS CENTRE OF THE CHANGING UNIVERSE . 200 THE BODY AS THE GLORY OF BRAHMAN .............. 203 DIALOGUE WITH THE WORLD: CONSPECTUS, COMPARISON, CRITICISM AND CREATIVE SYNTHESIS CONSPECTUS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF INCARNATE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF MERLEAU-PONTY ...... ... 207 CONSPECTUS: THE UNIVERSE AS THE BODY OF BRAHMAN IN THE VISISTADVAITA OF RAMANUJA ......... 213 SIMILARITIES AND DISSIMILARITIES IN THE THOUGHT OF MERLEAU-PONTY AND RAMANUJA ............. 216 MERITS AND DEMERITS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL VISION OF MERLEAU-PONTY AND RAMANUJA ............. 218 CREATIVE SYNTHESIS .................................. 223