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Time, Memory, InstitutionMerleau-Ponty's New Ontology of Self\nAuthor(s): David Morris, Kym Maclaren\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821421086, 978-0821421086\nSynopsis\nThis collection is the first extended investigation of the relation between time and memory in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's thought as a whole and the first to explore in depth the significance of his concept of institution. It brings the French phenomenologist's views on the self and ontology into contemporary focus. Time, Memory, Institution argues that the self is not a self-contained or self-determining identity, as such; it is gathered out of a radical openness to what is not self, and that it gathers itself in a time that is not merely a given dimension, but folds back upon, gathers, and institutes itself.\n Access to previously unavailable texts, in particular Merleau-Ponty's lectures on institution and expression, has presented scholas