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Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology and the realization of philosophy /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology and the realization of philosophy // Bryan A. Smyth.
Author:	Smyth, Bryan A.
Published:	London :Bloomsbury Academic, : 2014.,
Description:	xxxiii, 204 p. :ill ;24 cm.
Subject:	Phenomenology. -
ISBN:	9781780937052

Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology and the realization of philosophy /
Smyth, Bryan A.

Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology and the realization of philosophy /Bryan A. Smyth. - London :Bloomsbury Academic,2014. - xxxiii, 204 p. :ill ;24 cm. - Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197) and index.

Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception - a canonicaltext of twentieth-century philosophy - concludes with an appeal to 'heroism' by citing a series of enigmatic sentences drawn from Saint-Exupe;ry's Pilote de guerre. Surprisingly, however, these lines are antithetical to thephilosophical thrust of Merleau-Ponty's project. This bookaims to explain this situation. Foregrounding liminal themes in Merleau-Ponty's thought that have been largely overlooked - e.g., sacrifice, death, myth, faith - and showing how these themes support Merleau-Ponty's reinterpretation of Husserlian phenomenology, Smyth shows that Merleau-Ponty's appeal to 'heroism' represents an extra-philosophical appeal to a historical purposiveness as a universal feature of human nature, and that Merleau-Ponty makes this appeal in virtue of his recognition of the intrinsic methodological limitations of philosophy as a theoretical endeavor. The book thus recovers the 'militant' dimension of Merleau-Ponty's thought. This sheds considerable new light on his work. It does so in a way that challenges some of the basic parameters of existing Merleau-Ponty scholarship by illuminating the intrinsic normativity of his existential phenomenology, and its epistemic reliance on forms of non-reason such as faith and myth.

ISBN: 9781780937052GBP65.00

LCCN: 2013039128Subjects--Personal Names:

731414
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,
1908-1961Subjects--Topical Terms:

533816
Phenomenology.

LC Class. No.: B2430.M3764 / S58 2014

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