Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy write by Emmanuel Alloa. This book was released on 2019-12-01. Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The recent publication of his lecture courses and posthumous working notes has opened new avenues for both the interpretation of his thought and philosophy in general. These works confirm that, with a surprising premonition, Merleau-Ponty addressed many of the issues that concern philosophy today. With the benefit of this fuller picture of his thought, Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy undertakes an assessment of the philosopher's relevance for contemporary thinking. Covering a diverse range of topics, including ontology, epistemology, anthropology, embodiment, animality, politics, language, aesthetics, and art, the editors gather representative voices from North America and Europe, including both Merleau-Ponty specialists and thinkers who have come to the philosopher's work through their own thematic interest.
Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy
Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy write by Lawrence Hass. This book was released on 2008. Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A clear and comprehensive introduction to the thought of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context
Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context write by Douglas Low. This book was released on 2017-09-08. Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a great philosopher and social theorist of mid-twentieth century, as a viable alternative to both modernism and postmodernism. Douglas Low argues that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers explanations and solves problems that other philosophies grapple with, but do not resolve, given their respective theoretical presuppositions and assumptions. Low brings the work of Merleau-Ponty into critical contact with important thinkers, including Sartre, Heidegger, Derrida, and Marx. He highlights Merleau-Ponty's connection to the early Hegel, especially with regard to the criticism of modernism's "representational consciousness" and its subsequent skepticism with regard to our being in the world. Merleau-Ponty made a concerted effort to solve the problems that come about due to a wide variety of Western dualisms: body and mind, perception and conception, self and other, etc. He frequently does so by demonstrating the connection between these disparate terms, the connection of perception with affect and interest, fact with value, and a broadened view of science with moral and philosophical judgment. Merleau-Ponty's unique contribution is his focus on the lived-through perceiving body and its relationship to abstract thought and language. In his detailed analysis of the work of Merleau-Ponty, Low brings attention to a twentieth-century master capable of altering the landscape of modern and social philosophy in the twenty-first century.
Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism
Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism write by Rajiv Kaushik. This book was released on 2019-10-18. Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Merleau-Ponty says in his Institution and Passivity lectures that he wants to "consider criticism itself as a symbolic form" instead of doing "a philosophy of symbolic form." This invites the possibility of an unconventional thought: If critical philosophy is a symbolic form, it cannot disclose its own limits and is, in fact, uncritical. Furthermore, the symbolic form can never itself be thought according to the terms of the criticism it produces but is always only constellated and matrixed within them—a symbolic form within both reflection and what it reflects on, within consciousness and the world. Thus, as Rajiv Kaushik argues, the symbolic form is another name for what Merleau-Ponty calls ontological divergence. Only now divergence introduces the question of a limit to both the subject and philosophy itself. This is nothing less than a psychoanalysis of philosophy. Kaushik's analyses of the matrices between space—imagination, light—dark, awake—asleep, and repression—expression reveal this symbolism in its form of divergence, its lack of origin and destination. Kaushik also argues that the phenomenology of symbolism must detour from the purely descriptive method. Drawing from Merleau-Ponty's recently published course materials, and attentive to his reliance on literature and literary language, Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism continues the living force of Merleau-Ponty's thought and develops his radical insight of the primacy of the symbolic form, even in an ontology that claims to be about the sensible and its elements.
Resistance of the Sensible World
Resistance of the Sensible World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resistance of the Sensible World write by Emmanuel Alloa. This book was released on 2017-05-01. Resistance of the Sensible World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–61). Through a comprehensive analysis of the three main phases of Merleau-Ponty’s thinking and a thorough knowledge of his many unpublished manuscripts, the author traces how Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy evolved and exposes the remarkable coherence that structures it from within. Alloa teases out the continuity of a motive that traverses the entire oeuvre as a common thread. Merleau-Ponty struggled incessantly against any kind of ideology of transparency, whether of the world, of the self, of knowledge, or of the self’s relation to others. Already translated into several languages, Alloa’s innovative reading of this crucially important thinker shows why the issues Merleau-Ponty raised are, more than ever, those of our time.
