Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 betw
Table of Contents
Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part I: Philosophy and Method, Part II: Between Modernism and Postmodernism, Part III: Ethics and Politics, Selected Works by Merleau-Ponty, Bibliography, Name Index, Subject Index
