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Book SynopsisM. C. Dillon (19382005) was widely regarded as a world-leading Merleau-Ponty scholar. His book
Merleau-Ponty's Ontology (1988) is recognized as a classic text that revolutionized the philosophical conversation about the great French phenomenologist. Dillon followed that book with two others:
Semiological Reductionism, a critique of early-1990s linguistic reductionism, and
Beyond Romance, a richly developed theory of love. At the time of his death, Dillon had nearly completed two further books to which he was passionately committed. The first one offers a highly original interpretation of Nietzsche's ontology of becoming. The second offers a detailed ethical theory based on Merleau-Ponty's account of carnal intersubjectivity.
The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity collects these two manuscripts written by a distinguished philosopher at the peak of his powersmanuscripts that, taken together, offer a distinctive and powerful view of hum
Trade Review“Dillon was a force in Continental philosophy in the US for more than four decades.… This volume will keep his voice and thought alive for years to come.”
