Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-Humanism Paperback / softback
by Diana Coole
Part of the Modernity and Political Thought series
Paperback / softback
Description
In this important new book, Diana Coole shows how existential phenomenology illuminates and enlivens our understanding of politics.
Merleau-Ponty's focus on embodied experience allows us to approach political life in a manner that is both critical and engaged.
With breadth of vision and penetrating insight, Coole demonstrates that political questions were always central to Merleau-Ponty's philosophical project.
Her examination of his complete body of work presents us with a rigorous philosophy that maintains our capacities for agency despite moving beyond a philosophy of the subject. Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-humanism is the first major work on Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy in over two decades.
Coole presents his later philosophy of flesh as the outline for a new understanding of the political, which forms the basis for reconsidering humanism after, but also through, anti-humanism.
She also shows how Merleau-Ponty's concern with contingency anticipated arguments by thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze, while sustaining a robust sense of politics as the domain of collective life.
The result is a philosophical analysis that speaks to our contemporary concerns in which we seek a coherent account of our actions, our environment and ourselves, such that we might become exemplary political actors within a complex and uncertain world.
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:28/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780742533387
Other Formats
- Hardback from £106.00
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:28/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780742533387