Abstract
This turns around three questions.
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How does movement produce a body?
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What kind of subject is introduced in the thought of Merleau-Ponty and how does this subject engage with or interfere with the activity here considered as ‘body’?
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What happens when phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty) meets process philosophy (Alfred North Whitehead)?
Please note that this is an abridged version of a longer text in a special issue on Rhythm for Body and Society, 20 (1), forthcoming 2014.
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Manning, E. (2015). Three Propositions for a Movement of Thought. In: Grant, S., McNeilly, J., Veerapen, M. (eds) Performance and Temporalisation. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410276_9
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