Title: Phenomenology or Deconstruction? : the Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-luc Nancy /
Authors: Watkin, Christopher
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Ricœur, Paul; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,; Nancy, Jean-Luc; Ontology.; Fenomenologie.; Deconstructie.; Phenomenology.
Abstract: "Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional understandings of the relationship between phenomenology and deconstruction through new readings of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur and Jean-Luc Nancy. A constant dialogue with Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes provides the impetus to establishing a new understanding of 'being' and 'presence' that exposes significant blindspots inherent in traditional readings of both phenomenology and deconstruction." "This new reading of being and presence fundamentally re-draws our understanding of the relation of deconstruction and phenomenology, and provides the first sustained discussion of the possibilities and problems for any future 'deconstructive phenomenology.'"--Jacket.