{"product_id":"merleauponty-in-contemporary-context-9781412849401","title":"MerleauPonty in Contemporary Context","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLow 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface, 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408049414487,"sku":"9781412849401","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/merleauponty-in-contemporary-context-9781412849401","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}