Title: Merleau-Ponty and modern politics after anti-humanism /
Authors: Coole, Diana H.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,; Political science Philosophy; Existential phenomenology.
Abstract: "In this book, Diana Coole shows how existential phenomenology illuminates and enlivens our understanding of polities. With breadth of vision and penetrating insight, Coole demonstrates that political questions were always central to Merleau-Ponty's philosophical project. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Series editor's introduction / Morton Schoolman -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: situating and reading Merleau-Ponty as a political thinker -- The critique of rationalism -- A crisis of modernity? -- The critiques of ideology, liberalism and capitalism -- Adventures and misadventures of the dialectic -- In pursuit of the interworld -- Phenomenology as critical theory -- Living history, practising politics -- Negativity, agency and the return to ontology -- The politics of the body, the flesh of the political -- The phenomenology of the sexed/gendered body and the metaphorics of the flesh -- The flesh of the political after anti-humanism -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.