Ebook: Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Translations and abbreviations; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: life and works; 2 A guide to Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts; PART II: INTERVENTIONS; 3 Phenomenology and hyper-reflection -- 4 Existentialism: the new philosophy -- 5 Between empiricism and intellectualism; 6 Psychoanalysis; 7 Philosophy of history; 8 Politics and the political; 9 Art and aesthetics; PART III: INVENTIONS; 10 Body; 11 Perception; 12 Ambiguity; 13 Intersubjectivity and alterity; 14 Expression; 15 Affect and sensibility.;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. ""Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts"" presents an accessible guide to the core ideas which structure Merleau-Ponty's thinking as well as to his influences and the value of his ideas to a wide range of disciplines. The first section of the book presents the context of Merleau-Ponty's thinking, the major debates of his time, particularly existentialism, phenomenology, the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history and society. The s.