Merleau-Ponty's last vision : a proposal for the completion of The visible and the invisible / Douglas Low.

Author
Low, Douglas Beck, 1946- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2000.
Description
xv, 124 pages ; 23 cm.

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    • Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy [More in this series]
    • Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
    Summary note
    "Few writers' unfinished works are considered among their most important, but such is the case with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible. What exists of it is a mere beginning, published posthumously, yet it bridged modernism and postmodernism in philosophy." "Merleau-Ponty is among the best of the "first generation" of French phenomenologists. His untimely death in 1961 left The Visible and the Invisible in a fragmentary state that exacerbates the text's difficulty and complexity. Low uses material from some of Merleau-Ponty's later works -- specifically, essays from 1952 onward and published lecture summaries from the College de France -- to provide the basis for completion. Working from this material and an outline of the book left by Merleau-Ponty, Low has written an account of how The Visible and the Invisible would have looked had Merleau-Ponty lived to complete it." "Low shows a thorough mastery of the material and clarifies many difficult issues. Rather than presenting an argument, he offers an integration and extrapolation that go far beyond mere summary of the material: this distinguished scholar provides commentary on a work that was never finished, on various texts that were never published together, and on some that were never intended for publication. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-120) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: A Proposal for Completing Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible 1
    • Part 1. "The Visible and Nature"
    • 1 Philosophical Interrogation 9
    • 2 Visible 29
    • 3 Nature 38
    • 4 Classical Ontology and Modern Ontology 56
    • Part 2. "The Invisible and Logos"
    • 5 "The Invisible and Logos" 71.
    ISBN
    • 0810118076 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780810118072 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0810118068 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780810118065 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    00008842
    OCLC
    43845430
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