Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy

Transforming the Tradition

AvBernard Flynn,Wayne J. Froman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2009-07-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438426693

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Bernard Flynn is Professor of Philosophy at Empire State College, State University of New York, and he also teaches philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His books include The Philosophy of Claude Lefort: Interpreting the Political and Political Philosophy at the Closure of Metaphysics. Wayne J. Froman is Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University and the author of Merleau-Ponty: Language and the Act of Speech. Robert Vallier is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Assistant Director of the Honors Program at DePaul University. He is the translator of Merleau-Ponty's Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France.

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"Through the essays in this collection Merleau-Ponty's thought is treated in its uniqueness while expressly offering a productive confrontation with the contextual forces that shaped and affected his thinking … this is a terrific collection of essays." — Metapsychology

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1. INTRODUCTION2. HOMAGE TO MERLEAU-PONTYPaul Ricoeur3. MERLEAU-PONTY: Beyond Husserl and Heidegger (1989)Paul Ricoeur4. THE TURN OF EXPERIENCE: Merleau-Ponty and BergsonRenaud Barbaras5. COMMUNITY, SOCIETY, AND HISTORY IN THE LATER MERLEAU-PONTYMarc Richir6. TRACEWORK: Experience and Description in the Moral Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and LevinasDavid Michael Kleinberg-Levin7. MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION OF SKEPTICISMBernard Flynn8. THE ELEMENTAL FLESH: Nature, Life, and Difference in Merleau-Ponty and Plato’s TimaeusRobert Vallier9. THE BLIND SPOTWayne J. Froman10. PROXIMITY AND DISTANCE: With Regard to Heidegger in the Later Merleau-PontyMichel Haar11. CHIASM, FLESH, FIGURATION: Toward a Non-Positive OntologyVéronique M. Fóti12. PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ICONJenny Slatman13. ON THE "FUNDAMENTAL OF PAINTING": Chinese CounterpointJacques Taminiaux14. VARIATIONS OF THE SENSIBLE: The Truth of Ideas and Idea of Philosophy in the Later Merleau-PontyMauro Carbone15. THE BODY OF SPEECHFrançoise Dastur16. BODY, FLESHClaude LefortLIST OF CONTRIBUTORSINDEX