1st Edition

Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context Philosophy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

By Douglas Low Copyright 2013
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

This volume presents the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a great philosopher and social theorist of mid-twentieth century, as a viable alternative to both modernism and postmodernism. Douglas Low argues that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers explanations and solves problems that other philosophies grapple with, but do not resolve, given their respective theoretical presuppositions and assumptions.... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part I: Philosophy and Method, Part II: Between Modernism and Postmodernism, Part III: Ethics and Politics, Selected Works by Merleau-Ponty, Bibliography, Name Index, Subject Index

Biography

Douglas Low