Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context: Philosophy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
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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,...
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as a collection of essays, some are very good, some are less- all show the range of applicability of merleau-ponty's thought. from philosophy and method, which suggests how needed his work is in dissolving dualisms and skepticism inherited from 2 000 years or so of Western philosophy, the essence of his thought, in a phrase, would be:...
