Transforming Politics With Merleau-Ponty - Thinking Beyond the State

This book offers productive new readings of Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy and of other facets of his thought.

List of contents

Introduction. Jérôme Melançon, "Situating Merleau-Ponty and Political Philosophy: Relations, Institutions, and Transformations."
Chapter 1. Ann V. Murphy, "Phenomenology's Critical Turn: Ontological Rehabilitation as Reparative Method"
Chapter 2. Emily S. Lee, "The Possibility of Emotional Appropriateness for Groups Identified with a Temperament"
Chapter 3. Martín Plot, "Societies Without Bodies and the Bodies of Society. The Egalitarian Horizon in Lefort and Butler's Reading of Merleau-Ponty"
Chapter 4. Paul Mazzocchi, "Homo Utopicus: The Biopolitics of Intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty"
Chapter 5. Laura McMahon, "The 'Great Phantom': Habitus, Freedom, and Political Transformation in Merleau-Ponty and Fanon."
Chapter 6. Bryan Smyth, "Freedom's Ground: Merleau-Ponty and the Dialectics of Nature"
Chapter 7. Ted Toadvine, "Critical Ecophenomenology and Temporal Justice"
Chapter 8. Dan Furukawa Marques, "Political Phenomenology as Ethnographic Method"
Chapter 9. Jérôme Melançon, "Toward a New Balance and Interdependence: Merleau-Ponty on Colonialism and Underdevelopment"
Chapter 10. Dorothea Olkowski, "On the Limits of Perception for Social Interaction in Merleau-Ponty"
Chapter 11. Emmanuel de Saint-Aubert, "The Perceptual Foundation of Care"

About the author

Edited by Jérôme Melançon

Summary

This book offers productive new readings of Merleau-Ponty’s political philosophy and of other facets of his thought.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Melancon
• Assisted by: Jerome Melancon (Editor), Jérôme Melançon (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781538153086
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5308-6
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political; Reframing the Boundaries: Thin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & political philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism