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Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-Humanism
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2007
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In this important new book, Diana Coole shows how existential phenomenology illuminates and enlivens our understanding of politics. Merleau-Ponty’s focus on embodied experience allows us to approach political life in a manner that is both critical and engaged. With breadth of vision and penetrating insight, Coole demonstrates that political questions were always central to Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical project. Her examination of his complete body of work presents us with a rigorous philosophy that maintains our capacities for agency despite moving beyond a philosophy of the subject.
Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-humanism is the first major work on Merleau-Ponty’s political philosophy in over two decades. Coole presents his later philosophy of flesh as the outline for a new understanding of the political, which forms the basis for reconsidering humanism after, but also through, anti-humanism. She also shows how Merleau-Ponty’s concern with contingency anticipated arguments by thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze, while sustaining a robust sense of politics as the domain of collective life. The result is a philosophical analysis that speaks to our contemporary concerns in which we seek a coherent account of our actions, our environment and ourselves, such that we might become exemplary political actors within a complex and uncertain world.
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Edition
1/2007
Copyright Year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-3337-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4012-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
273
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
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Series Editor's Introduction by Morton Schoolman No access
Introduction: Situating and Reading Merleau-Ponty as a Political Thinker No access Pages 1 - 20
1 A Crisis of Modernity? No access
2 The Critiques of Ideology, Liberalism, and Capitalism No access
3 Adventures and Misadventures of the Dialectic No access
4 Phenomenology as Critical Theory No access
5 Living History, Practising Politics No access
6 Negativity, Agency, and the Return to Ontology No access
7 The Phenomenology of the Sexed/Gendered Body and the Metaphorics of the Flesh No access
8 The Flesh of the Political after Anti-Humanism No access
