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Merleau-Ponty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has been hailed by many as the greatest French thinker of the twentieth century. As one of the founding members of the existentialist movement in the 1940s, he played a key role in introducing the work of Husserl and Heidegger into French thought and collaborated with Jean-Paul Sartre in the founding of Les Temps Modernes . His later work laid the foundation for the development of French thought in the direction of post-structuralism and post-modernism. Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers gathers together the best critical writing on Merleau-Ponty’s work from the last half century. The collection includes early reviews of his work and the reactions of his contemporaries both during and after his life. Also covered are examinations of his relationship with Husserl, Sartre and the phenomenological tradition, investigations of key themes from his work on ontology, expression and politics, and the ongoing application of his thinking to such contemporary areas of interest as feminist theory, psychology and child development, environmental philosophy and cognitive science.
341 pages, Hardcover
Published September 18, 2006
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December 12, 2021
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290813: this is Volume 2:
as a usual collection there is usually some very good, some not as good, but almost all are good in another great selection of essays, some recent, almost all translated thus some never before read...
there is part 3 in this volume 2, referring to perception and ontology, that interrogate that original style of m-p, an essay helpful to understand exactly what 'style' means in philosophy, that original concern, and how it infuses all his thought. perception is ontology, and having read much of these, there is some that seem prospectus of his later work, such as MC Dillon's work, some that refer to Heidegger, which is difficult and somewhat disheartening but only because this contends m-p is overcome, then some Deleuze eg. Lawlor, which encourages me to try him again, more explication of how it fits with time eg. Sallis...
part 4 in this volume 2, is perhaps closest to me because it refers to expression, art, and language. there is m-p as thinker on painting in total, how exact, how mistaken, he is- but always that he does take art seriously as presenting thinkable experience rather than distraction from thought eg. Plato or Hegel. there is good reflection on Cezanne, but I guess for me the most interesting is imagining and finding meaning in abstraction, and how such so-called subjective work is yet on the progressive continuum of modern art... and how art has worked from the caves of Lascaux to the visions of Picasso...
great essays… next:
Merleau-Ponty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
290813: this is Volume 2:
as a usual collection there is usually some very good, some not as good, but almost all are good in another great selection of essays, some recent, almost all translated thus some never before read...
there is part 3 in this volume 2, referring to perception and ontology, that interrogate that original style of m-p, an essay helpful to understand exactly what 'style' means in philosophy, that original concern, and how it infuses all his thought. perception is ontology, and having read much of these, there is some that seem prospectus of his later work, such as MC Dillon's work, some that refer to Heidegger, which is difficult and somewhat disheartening but only because this contends m-p is overcome, then some Deleuze eg. Lawlor, which encourages me to try him again, more explication of how it fits with time eg. Sallis...
part 4 in this volume 2, is perhaps closest to me because it refers to expression, art, and language. there is m-p as thinker on painting in total, how exact, how mistaken, he is- but always that he does take art seriously as presenting thinkable experience rather than distraction from thought eg. Plato or Hegel. there is good reflection on Cezanne, but I guess for me the most interesting is imagining and finding meaning in abstraction, and how such so-called subjective work is yet on the progressive continuum of modern art... and how art has worked from the caves of Lascaux to the visions of Picasso...
great essays… next:
Merleau-Ponty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
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