This volume presents the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a great
philosopher and social theorist of mid-twentieth century, as a
viable alternative to both modernism and postmodernism. Douglas Low
argues that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers explanations and
solves problems that other philosophies grapple with, but do not
resolve, given their respective theoretical presuppositions and
assumptions.
Low brings the work of Merleau-Ponty into critical contact with
important thinkers, including Sartre, Heidegger, Derrida, and Marx.
He highlights Merleau-Ponty's connection to the early Hegel,
especially with regard to the criticism of modernism's
"representational consciousness" and its subsequent skepticism with
regard to our being in the world. Merleau-Ponty made a concerted
effort to solve the problems that come about due to a wide variety
of Western dualisms: body and mind, perception and conception, self
and other, etc. He frequently does so by demonstrating the
connection between these disparate terms, the connection of
perception with affect and interest, fact with value, and a
broadened view of science with moral and philosophical
judgment.
Merleau-Ponty's unique contribution is his focus on the
lived-through perceiving body and its relationship to abstract
thought and language. In his detailed analysis of the work of
Merleau-Ponty, Low brings attention to a twentieth-century master
capable of altering the landscape of modern and social philosophy
in the twenty-first century.
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