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By Taylor Carman,Mark B. N. Hansen

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) was once defined through Paul Ricoeur as 'the maximum of the French phenomenologists'. The essays during this 2004 quantity learn the whole scope of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, from his crucial and abiding obstacle with the character of belief and the physically structure of intentionality to his reflections on technological know-how, nature, artwork, historical past, and politics. The authors discover the old origins and context of his notion in addition to its carrying on with relevance to modern paintings in phenomenology, philosophy of brain, cognitive technological know-how, biology, artwork feedback and political and social conception. What emerges is a clean snapshot of Merleau-Ponty as a deep and unique philosopher whose philosophical value has been underestimated, partially as a result of the effect of highbrow pursuits corresponding to existentialism and structuralism, into which his paintings couldn't be simply assimilated. New readers will locate this the handiest and available advisor to Merleau-Ponty at present available.

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