Emmanuel Alloa & Frank Chouraqui 
Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy [EPUB ebook] 

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.

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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

Over de auteur

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.