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Free Download Jérôme Melançon, "Transforming Politics with Merleau-Ponty: Thinking beyond the State "
English | ISBN: 1538153084 | 2021 | 234 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The contributors to this book offer productive new readings of Merleau-Ponty’s political philosophy and of other facets of his thought. They each deploy his theories to adopt a critical stance on urgent political issues and contemporary situations within society. Each essay focuses on a different aspect of political transformation, be it at the personal, social, national, or international level. The book as a whole maps out possibilities for thinking phenomenologically about politics without a sole focus on the state, turning instead toward contemporary human experience and existence.

Free Download Jin Y. Park, "Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism"
English | ISBN: 0739118250 | 2009 | 350 pages | EPUB | 445 KB
Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions, Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a Buddhist worldview is articulated in the theory of dependent co-arising, or the middle path, which comprehends the world and beings in the third space, where the subject and the object, or eternalism and annihilation, exist independent of one another. The thirteen essays in this volume explore this third space in their discussions of Merleau-Ponty’s concepts of the intentional arc, the flesh of the world, and the chiasm of visibility in connection with the Buddhist doctrine of no-self and the five aggregates, the Tiantai Buddhist concept of threefold truth, Zen Buddhist

Free Download Douglas Low, "Merleau-Ponty’s Last Vision: A Proposal for the Completion of "The Visible and the Invisible""
English | 2002 | pages: 141 | ISBN: 0810118076, 0810118068 | PDF | 0,5 mb
Few writers’ unfinished works are considered among their most important, but such is the case with Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible. What exists of it is a mere beginning, yet it bridged modernism and postmodernism in philosophy. Low uses material from some of Merleau-Ponty’s later works as the basis for completion. Working from this material and the philosopher’s own outline, Low presents how this important work would have looked had Merleau-Ponty lived to complete it.

Free Download Douglas Low, "Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context: Philosophy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century"
English | ISBN: 1138512087 | 2017 | 318 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This volume presents the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a great philosopher and social theorist of mid-twentieth century, as a viable alternative to both modernism and postmodernism. Douglas Low argues that Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy offers explanations and solves problems that other philosophies grapple with, but do not resolve, given their respective theoretical presuppositions and assumptions.

Free Download Rajiv Kaushik, "Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty: Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic "
English | ISBN: 1441136266 | 2013 | 168 pages | PDF | 843 KB
Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty: Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic considers Merleau-Ponty’s later ontology of language in the light of his "figured philosophy," which places the work of art at the centre of its investigation. Kaushik argues that, since for Merleau-Ponty the work of art actualizes a sensible ontology that would otherwise be invisible to the history of dialectics, it undermines the fundamental difference between being and linguistic structures.

Free Download Emily S. Lee Professor of Philosophy California State University at Fullerton, "A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference "
English | ISBN: 1666916722 | 2024 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 616 KB + 1083 KB

Free Download Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism by Brian Hisao Onishi
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 166 Pages | ISBN : 3031480260 | 4.7 MB
This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism. Brian Onishi argues that wonder has explanatory power for the constitution of the world and the organization of meaning. To do this, he appeals to both fiction (speculative and Weird fiction in particular) and quantum physics. More specifically, he argues that the focus of Weird fiction on impossible experiences and a feeling of something just beyond the limits of one’s grasp dramatizes the speculative reach beyond the limits of our understanding. But more than a tool for knowledge acquisition, wonder is an organizing property of objects. Like the collapse of superposition in quantum physics, reality is constituted when objects reveal themselves to other objects and thereby organize themselves into complex objects. Since no relation is exhaustive, the capacity to wonder remains at a material level, and the possibility of reorganization is ever present. Ultimately, Onishi argues for a speculative eco-phenomenology with wonder as an engine for a Weird environmental ethics.

Free Download Dr Joseph Berendzen, "Embodied Idealism: Merleau-Ponty’s Transcendental Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 0192874764 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1154 KB + 2 MB
Embodied Idealism argues that Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s early thought – primarily as found in The Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception – stands as a form of transcendental idealism. This interpretation runs against the grain of much of the Merleau-Ponty scholarship, and opposing interpretations are not without support. Merleau-Ponty is at points highly critical of idealism in his early works. Also, his emphasis on embodiment would seem to run counter to the idealist view that the mental is central to reality.