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Merleau-Ponty and modern politics after anti-humanism / Diana Coole.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coole, Diana H., author.
- Series:
- Modernity and political thought.
- Modernity and Political Thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Existential phenomenology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this important new book, Diana Coole shows how existential phenomenology illuminates and enlivens our understanding of politics. Merleau-PontyOs 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-PontyOs 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.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Introduction by Morton Schoolman; Introduction: Situating and Reading Merleau-Ponty as a Political Thinker; Part One: The Critique of Rationalism; 1 A Crisis of Modernity?; 2 The Critiques of Ideology, Liberalism, and Capitalism; 3 Adventures and Misadventures of the Dialectic; Part Two: In Pursuit of the Interworld; 4 Phenomenology as Critical Theory; 5 Living History, Practising Politics; 6 Negativity, Agency, and the Return to Ontology; Part Three: The Politics of the Body, the Flesh of the Political
- 7 The Phenomenology of the Sexed/Gendered Body and the Metaphorics of the Flesh8 The Flesh of the Political after Anti-Humanism; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4616-4012-1
- 0-7425-3338-7
- OCLC:
- 856869652
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