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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Merleau-Ponty in contemporary perspective

edited byPatrick BurkeJan Van Der Veken

Abstract

Merleau-Ponty in contemporary perspective: this was the theme of the conference at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K. U. L. ) from 29 November to 1 December 1991. Thirty years after Merleau­ Ponty's untimely death, it seemed appropriate to bring together scholars from Europe and from the United States of America to reappraise his philosophy. In fact, a significant body of scholarship has emerged which would seem to attest to the continuing importance of his thought for a variety of disciplines within the humanities, the social sciences, and the philosophy of nature. In the present volume, Gary Brent Madison addresses the issue whether Merleau-Ponty can be considered to be a classical philosopher. The fact that his work is one of the highlights of the phenomenological tradition and is of continuing inspiration for researchers in various domains seems to justify that claim. Yet, it is the feeling of many of the contributors to this volume that the so-called "second Merleau-Ponty" is still not really known. The unfinished state of The Visible and the Invisible and the cryptic condition of many of the "Working Notes" may be responsible for that. More research should be done, to uncover "the unsaid" of Merleau-Ponty. lowe to a remark of Paul Ricoeur in his introduction to the work of G. B. Madison, La Phenomenologie de Merleau-Ponty. Une recherche des limites de la conscience (Paris, Klincksieck, 1973, p.

Details | Table of Contents

The Subject in Nature

Reflections on Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception

Rudolf Bernet(Husserl-Archives, KU Leuven)

pp.53-68

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1751-7_5
Raw Being and Violent Discourse

Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and the (Dis-)Order of Things

Rudi Visker

pp.109-129

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1751-7_9
Communication and the Prose of the World

The Question of Language in Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer

James Risser

pp.131-144

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1751-7_10
Phenomenology and Ontology

Hannah Arendt and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Laura Boella

pp.171-179

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1751-7_12

Publication details

Publisher: Kluwer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 1993

Pages: 206, xxxiii

Series: Phaenomenologica

Series volume: 129

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-1751-7

ISBN (hardback): 9789401047685

ISBN (digital): 978-94-011-1751-7

Full citation:

Burke Patrick, Van Der Veken Jan (1993) Merleau-Ponty in contemporary perspective. Dordrecht, Kluwer.