Merleau-Ponty''s Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Hass Klappentext Lawrence Hass is Professor of Philosophy at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is editor (with Dorothea Olkowski) of Re-Reading Merleau-Ponty: Essays Beyond the Continental-Analytic Divide. Zusammenfassung The work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty touches on some of the most essential and vital concerns of the world today, yet his ideas are notoriously difficult and not widely understood. This work redresses this problem by offering a carefully argued, critical appreciation of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations of Texts by Merleau-Ponty Introduction: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy: "Singing the World" Prelude: Scenes from the Cartesian Theater 1. The Sensation Fallacy: Toward a Phenomenology of Perception 2. The Secret Life of Things 3. Singing the Living Body Electric 4. Elemental Alterity: Self and Others 5. Later Developments: Ecart, Reversibility, and the Flesh of the World 6. Expression and the Origin of Geometry 7. Behold "The Speaking Word": The Expressive Life of Language Conclusion: The Visible and the Invisible Appendix: The Multiple Meanings of Flesh in Merleau-Ponty's Late Writings Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Hass, Hass Lawrence
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2008
• EAN: 9780253219732
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21973-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Continental Thought; Studies in Continental Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day