Merleau-Ponty's Ontology: Second Edition

Originally published in 1988, these studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy is now available in a revised second edition containing a new Preface and a new chapter on "Truth in Art". One of the few works on Merleau-Ponty currently available to an English-speaking audience that is sensitive to the deeper insights and subtleties of Merleau-Ponty's thought, yet is written in clear, understandable prose.

About the author

M.C. DILLON was Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. His publicaions include Merleau-Ponty Vivant, Semiological Reductionism: A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Postmodern Thought, Écart and Différance: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Seeing and Writing, and mroe than fifty journal raticles, many of which are devoted to Merleau-Ponty scholarship.

Summary

This revised text covers Merleau-Ponty's early work on the philosophical significance of the human body to his later ontology of flesh. Dillon's general thesis is that he developed a genuine alternative to the ontological dualism seen in Western philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: M. C. Dillion, M. C. Dillon, M.c. Dillon
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780810115286
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1528-6
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Studies in Phenomenology and E; Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Studies in Phenomenology and E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day