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Author : Taylor Carman
Release : 2005
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty by : Taylor Carman
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty written by Taylor Carman. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Taylor Carman
Release : 2004-09-20
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty by : Taylor Carman
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty written by Taylor Carman. This book was released on 2004-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–61) was described by Paul Ricoeur as 'the greatest of the French phenomenologists'. The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, from his central and abiding concern with the nature of perception and the bodily constitution of intentionality to his reflections on science, nature, art, history, and politics. The authors explore the historical origins and context of his thought as well as its continuing relevance to contemporary work in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, biology, art criticism and political and social theory. What emerges is a fresh image of Merleau-Ponty as a deep and original thinker whose philosophical importance has been underestimated, in part owing to the influence of intellectual movements such as existentialism and structuralism, into which his work could not be easily assimilated. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Merleau-Ponty currently available.
Author : Steven Crowell
Release : 2012-02-16
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism by : Steven Crowell
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism written by Steven Crowell. This book was released on 2012-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted exclusively to existentialism in over forty years, a team of distinguished commentators discuss the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir and show how their focus on existence provides a compelling perspective on contemporary issues in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, language and history. A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The volume offers a rich and comprehensive assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon.
Author : Simon Critchley
Release : 2002-07-25
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Levinas by : Simon Critchley
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Levinas written by Simon Critchley. This book was released on 2002-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas, first published in 2002, which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.
Author : Rosalyn Diprose
Release : 2014-12-05
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Merleau-Ponty by : Rosalyn Diprose
Download or read book Merleau-Ponty written by Rosalyn Diprose. This book was released on 2014-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having initially not had the attention of Sartre or Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty's work is arguably now more widely influential than either of his two contemporaries. "Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts" presents an accessible guide to the core ideas which structure Merleau-Ponty's thinking as well as to his influences and the value of his ideas to a wide range of disciplines. The first section of the book presents the context of Merleau-Ponty's thinking, the major debates of his time, particularly existentialism, phenomenology, the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history and society. The second section outlines his major contributions and conceptual innovations. The final section focuses upon how his work has been taken up in other fields besides philosophy, notably in sociology, cognitive science, health studies, feminism and race theory.
