Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy
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Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy

Transforming the Tradition

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eBook - PDF

Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy

Transforming the Tradition

About this book

Leading scholars engage the later contributions of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty is arguably the preeminent French philosopher of the last century, and interest in his thought is growing exponentially. This volume celebrates and interrogates the thought of Merleau-Ponty by drawing upon both classic and state-of-the-art assessments, some available in English here for the first time. The result is an essential collection of essays that explore Merleau-Ponty's importance in terms of his originality vis-à-vis the philosophical tradition, and examine his major insights about such contemporary concerns as subjectivity, the question of the other and sociality, the natural and the human, art, the sensible and the intelligible, and the philosophical study of language. Penetrating and illuminating, these essays firmly install Merleau-Ponty among the most innovative and critically debated thinkers of the past half century.

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Table of contents

  1. MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF PHILOSOPHY
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. ABBREVIATIONS
  5. 1. INTRODUCTION
  6. 2. HOMAGE TO MERLEAU-PONTY
  7. 3. MERLEAU-PONTY: Beyond Husserl and Heidegger (1989)
  8. 4. THE TURN OF EXPERIENCE: Merleau-Ponty and Bergson
  9. 5. COMMUNITY, SOCIETY, AND HISTORY IN THE LATER MERLEAU-PONTY
  10. 6. TRACEWORK: Experience and Description in the MoralPhenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas
  11. 7. MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION OF SKEPTICISM
  12. 8. THE ELEMENTAL FLESH: Nature, Life, and Difference in Merleau-Ponty and Plato’s Timaeus
  13. 9. THE BLIND SPOT
  14. 10. PROXIMITY AND DISTANCE: With Regard to Heidegger in the Later Merleau-Ponty
  15. 11. CHIASM, FLESH, FIGURATION: Toward a Non-Positive Ontology
  16. 12. PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ICON
  17. 13. ON THE “FUNDAMENTAL OF PAINTING: ”Chinese Counterpoint
  18. 14. VARIATIONS OF THE SENSIBLE: The Truth of Ideas and Idea of Philosophy in the Later Merleau-Ponty
  19. 15. THE BODY OF SPEECH
  20. 16. BODY, FLESH
  21. CONTRIBUTORS
  22. INDEX