The tools, concepts, and vocabulary of phenomenology are used in this book to explore language in a multitude of contexts.[...]

A glimpse into Maurice Merleau-Ponty's nuanced reading of Husserl and his effort to track the genesis of truth through the idealization of language. It combines Merleau-Ponty's notes on Husserl's "Origin of Geometry", his "Course Summary", related texts, and essays by the co-translators.[...]

The French philosopher Renaud Barbaras remarked that late in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's career, "The phenomenology of perception fulfills itself as a philosophy of expression." In "Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology, and Ontology, "Veronique M. Foti""addresses the gu[...]

Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology shows how the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from its very beginnings, seeks to find sense or meaning within nature, and how this quest calls for and develops into a radically new ontology. David Morris first gives an illuminating analysis of sense, showi[...]

Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty is the first book-length examination of the relation between these two major thinkers of the twentieth century. Questioning the dominant view that the two have little of substance in common, Judith Wambacq brings them into a compelling dialogue to reveal a [...]

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to explicate Merleau-Ponty's unwritten ethics. Daly contends that though Merleau-Ponty never developed an ethics per se, there is significant textual evidence that clearly indicates he had the intentio[...]

Having initially not had the attention of Sartre or Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty's work is arguably now more widely influential than either of his two contemporaries. "e;Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts"e; presents an accessible guide to the core ideas which structure Merleau-Ponty's thinking as well[...]

This book poses the question of what lies at the limit of philosophy. Through close studies of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life and work, the authors examine one of the twentieth century's most interdisciplinary philosophers whose thought intersected with and contributed to the pr[...]