Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The recent publication of his lecture courses and posthumous working notes has opened new avenues for both the interpretation of his thought and philosophy in general. These works confirm that, with a surprising premonition, Merleau-Ponty addressed many of the issues that concern philosophy today. With the benefit of this fuller picture of his thought,
Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy undertakes an assessment of the philosopher’s relevance for contemporary thinking. Covering a diverse range of topics, including ontology, epistemology, anthropology, embodiment, animality, politics, language, aesthetics, and art, the editors gather representative voices from North America and Europe, including both Merleau-Ponty specialists and thinkers who have come to the philosopher’s work through their own thematic interest.
Table of Content
Texts of Merleau-Ponty’s, Abbreviated
Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy: An Introduction
Emmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, Rajiv Kaushik
Legacies
The Three Senses of Flesh: Concerning an Impasse in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology
Renaud Barbaras
Vortex of Time. Merleau-Ponty on Temporality
Bernhard Waldenfels and
Regula Giuliani
Undergoing an Experience: Sensing, Bodily Affordances, and the Institution of the Self
Emmanuel Alloa
Between Sense and Non-Sense: Merleau-Ponty and “The Silence of the Absolute Language”
Stephen Watson
Mind and Nature
The Truth of Naturalism
Jocelyn Benoist
The Panpsychism Question in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology
Jennifer Mc Weeny
Merleau-Ponty and Biosemiotics: From the Issue of Meaning in Living Beings to a New Deal between Science and Metaphysics
Annabelle Dufourcq
Politics, Power, Institution
The Institution of the Law: Merleau-Ponty and Lefort
Bernard Flynn
Post-Truth Politics and the Paradox of Power
Frank Chouraqui
Institutional Habits: About Bodies and Orientations that Don’t Fit
Sara Ahmed
Art and Creation
Art after the Sublime in Merleau-Ponty and Andre Breton: Aesthetics and the Politics of
Mad Love
Galen A. Johnson
Institution and Critique of the Museum in “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence”
Rajiv Kaushik
Deleuze’s “Philosophy-Cinema”: A Variation on Merleau-Ponty’s “A-Philosophy”?
Mauro Carbone
Strong Beauty: In Face of Structures of Exclusion
Veronique M. Foti
Epilogue
Merleau-Ponty: An Attempt at a Response
Jean-Luc Nancy
Contributors
Index
About the author
Emmanuel Alloa is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His books include
Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty.
Frank Chouraqui is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. His books include
Ambiguity and the Absolute: Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth.
Rajiv Kaushik is Professor of Philosophy at Brock University, Canada. His books include
Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology, also published by SUNY Press.
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