
The Thinking of the Sensible
Merleau-Ponty's ""a-Philosophy
Mauro Carbone(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2004
Book
Hardback
136 pages
978-0-8101-1363-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this first English publication of a well-known and widely respected Italian scholar, readers will encounter the preeminent interpreter of the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty engaged in a dialogue of critical concern to contemporary philosophy. In subtle and sensitive language eminently suitable to the style and substance of Merleau-Ponty's own writings, Mauro Carbone fashions four essays around a theme - the relations of the sensible and the intelligible, and of philosophy and non-philosophy - that occupied Merleau-Ponty in his later work. An original and innovative interpretation of the ontology of Merleau-Ponty - and themselves a significant contribution to the field of Continental thought - these essays constitute a sustained exploration of what Merleau-Ponty detected, and greeted, as a ""mutation within the relations of man and Being,"" which would provide him with a basis for a new idea of philosophy or ""a-philosophy"". Carbone analyses key elements of Merleau-Ponty's thought in relation to Proust's ""Recherche"", Hegel's ""Phenomenology of Spirit"", the new biology of Von Uexkull, Rimbaud's ""Lettre du voyant"", and Heidegger's conception of ""letting-be"". His work clearly demonstrates the vitality of Merleau-Ponty's late revolutionary philosophy by following its most salient, previously unexplored paths.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-1363-3 (9780810113633)
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Content
The Time Of Half-Sleep: Merleau-Ponty Between Husserl And Proust: Lived Time; Time And Subject. ""Ad Limina Philosophiae"": Merleau-Ponty And The ""Introduction"" To Hegel's ""Phenomenology Of Spirit"": What Beginning Of Knowledge?; Which Absolute Knowledge?; What Language For Philosophy?. Nature: Variations On The Theme: Nature And Ontology; Melody And Species; ""Voyance""; ""Generality Of Things"". The Thinking Of The Sensible: The Problem Of The Concept; Letting-Be According To Heidegger And Merleau-Ponty; The Philosophy Of A Baroque World.