Philosophers and artists consider the relevance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy for understanding art and aesthetic experience.
This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated perspectives on art and perception based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Although Merleau-Ponty focused almost exclusively on painting in his writings on aesthetics, this collection also considers...(Read More)
Nature and Logos
(June 2011)
A Whiteheadian Key to Merleau-Ponty's Fundamental Thought William S. Hamrick - Author Jan Van der Veken - Author
Exploration of Alfred North Whitehead’s influence on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of nature.
This is the first book-length account of how Maurice Merleau-Ponty used certain texts by Alfred North Whitehead to develop an ontology based on nature, and how he could have used other Whitehead texts that he did not know in order to complete his last ontology. This account is enriched by several of Merleau-P...(Read More)
Connects the work of Merleau-Ponty to environmental studies.
This richly diverse collection looks at the contemporary relevance of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to environmental issues and builds a coherent philosophical ecology based on his thought. The contributors describe and analyze relations within the natural world by focusing on the centrality of relations in Merleau-Ponty’s work; his concep...(Read More)
Winner of the 2004 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology with interest from a fund raised from Professor Ballard's family, students, and friends
A comprehensive account of human kindness.
Kindness and the Good Society utilizes phenomenology and a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional sources to provide the f...(Read More)
