The Thinking of the Sensible – Merleau–Ponty`s ""a–Philosophy

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In this first English publication of a well-known and widely respected Italian scholar, readers will encounter the preeminent interpreter of the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty engaged in a dialogue of critical concern to contemporary philosophy. In subtle and sensitive language eminently suited to the style and substance of Merleau-Ponty's own writings, Mauro Carbone fashions four essays around a central theme-the relations of the sensible and the intelligible, and of philosophy and non-philosophy-that occupied Merleau-Ponty in his later work. <BR>An original and innovative interpretation of the ontology of Merleau-Ponty--and themselves a significant contribution to the field of Continental thought--these essays constitute a sustained exploration of what Merleau-Ponty detected, and greeted, as a "mutation within the relations of man and Being," which would provide him with the basis for a new idea of philosophy or "a-philosophy." In lucid, often elegant terms, Carbone analyzes key elements of Merleau-Ponty's thought in relation to Proust's Recherche, Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit," the new biology of Von Uexkull, Rimbaud's "Lettre du voyant," and Heidegger's conception of "letting-be." His work clearly demonstrates the vitality of Merleau-Ponty's late revolutionary philosophy by following its most salient, previously unexplored paths. This is essential reading for any scholar with an interest in Merleau-Ponty, in the questions of embodiment, temporality and Nature, or in the possibility of philosophy today.<BR>

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780810119864
• Collana: Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy
• Dimensioni: 227 x 11 x 154 mm Ø 282 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 136