Janine Ponty

Diagnostic considerations in ataxia - telangiectasia JANINE

Boder and Sedgwick (1957) presented the first thorough review of ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) and stressed the prevalence of sinopulmonary symptoms. The incidence of pulmonary complications was considered sufficiently significant to include them as part of the syndrome-ataxia, oculocutaneous telangiectasia, and recurrent sinopulmonary infections. Since then, reports have shown that sinopulmonary...

Habit and embodiment in Merleau-Ponty

INTRODUCTION Merleau-Ponty (French phenomenological philosopher, born in 1908 and deceased in 1961) refers to habit in various passages of his Phenomenology of Perception as a relevant issue in his philosophical and phenomenological position. Through his exploration of this issue he explains both the pre-reflexive character that our original linkage with the world has, as well as the kind of “u...

Erratum on: Habit and embodiment in Merleau-Ponty

[This corrects the article on p. 542 in vol. 8, PMID: 25120448.].

Merleau-Ponty and the Existential Conception of Science

Stopping the Anthropological Machine: Agamben with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty

To render inoperative the machine that governs our conception of man will therefore mean … to risk ourselves in this emptiness: the suspension of suspension, Shabbat of both animal and man. (Agamben, The Open 92) In The Open, Giorgio Agamben diagnoses the history of both science and philosophy as part of what he calls the " anthropological machine " through which the human is created with and a...