Phenomenology or Deconstruction?
Subtitle: The Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 15, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780748637591
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Asian; Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory -- Deconstructionism; Nonfiction -- Philosophy -- Movements -- Deconstruction; Nonfiction -- Philosophy -- Movements -- Phenomenology
Description: "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.