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Chiasms : Merleau-Ponty's notion of flesh

By Leonard , Merleau-Ponty , Maurice; Evans , Fred; Merleau-Ponty , Maurice; Lawlor

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0-7914-4685-9, 9780791446850, 9780791446867, 0-7914-4686-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
950 kB (972914 bytes)
Series
SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
Pages
280\291
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Leading scholars explore the later thought of Merleau-Ponty and its central role in the modernism-postmodernism debate. Some of the best interpretations and evaluations of Merleau-Ponty's innovative notions of chiasm and flesh are presented here by prominent scholars from the United States and Europe. Divided into three sections, the book first establishes the notion of the flesh as a consistent concept and unfolds the nuances of flesh that make it a compelling idea. The second section adds to the force of this idea by showing how flesh can be extended to phenomena that Merleau-Ponty was not able to treat, such as the internet and virtual reality, and the third offers criticisms of Merleau-Ponty from feminist and Levinasian points of view. All the essays attest to the fecundity of Merleau-Ponty's later thought for such central philosophical issues as the bonds between self, others, and the world

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