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Free Download Rajiv Kaushik, "Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty: Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic "
English | ISBN: 1441136266 | 2013 | 168 pages | PDF | 843 KB
Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty: Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic considers Merleau-Ponty’s later ontology of language in the light of his "figured philosophy," which places the work of art at the centre of its investigation. Kaushik argues that, since for Merleau-Ponty the work of art actualizes a sensible ontology that would otherwise be invisible to the history of dialectics, it undermines the fundamental difference between being and linguistic structures.

Free Download First Nature: The Problem of Nature in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
by Alessio Rotundo
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004548939 | 255 Pages | True PDF | 3.3 MB

Free Download Emily S. Lee Professor of Philosophy California State University at Fullerton, "A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference "
English | ISBN: 1666916722 | 2024 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 616 KB + 1083 KB

Free Download Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism by Brian Hisao Onishi
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 166 Pages | ISBN : 3031480260 | 4.7 MB
This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism. Brian Onishi argues that wonder has explanatory power for the constitution of the world and the organization of meaning. To do this, he appeals to both fiction (speculative and Weird fiction in particular) and quantum physics. More specifically, he argues that the focus of Weird fiction on impossible experiences and a feeling of something just beyond the limits of one’s grasp dramatizes the speculative reach beyond the limits of our understanding. But more than a tool for knowledge acquisition, wonder is an organizing property of objects. Like the collapse of superposition in quantum physics, reality is constituted when objects reveal themselves to other objects and thereby organize themselves into complex objects. Since no relation is exhaustive, the capacity to wonder remains at a material level, and the possibility of reorganization is ever present. Ultimately, Onishi argues for a speculative eco-phenomenology with wonder as an engine for a Weird environmental ethics.

Free Download Dr Joseph Berendzen, "Embodied Idealism: Merleau-Ponty’s Transcendental Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 0192874764 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1154 KB + 2 MB
Embodied Idealism argues that Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s early thought – primarily as found in The Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception – stands as a form of transcendental idealism. This interpretation runs against the grain of much of the Merleau-Ponty scholarship, and opposing interpretations are not without support. Merleau-Ponty is at points highly critical of idealism in his early works. Also, his emphasis on embodiment would seem to run counter to the idealist view that the mental is central to reality.

Free Download Jorella Andrews, "The Question of Painting: Rethinking Thought with Merleau-Ponty"
English | ISBN: 1472574281 | 2018 | 352 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is all too often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagement. How can paintings change the world today?

Free Download Keith Whitmoyer, "The Philosophy of Ontological Lateness: Merleau-Ponty and the Tasks of Thinking "
English | ISBN: 1350003972 | 2017 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Addressing Merleau-Ponty’s work Phenomenology of Perception, in dialogue with The Visible and the Invisible, his lectures at the Collège de France, and his reading of Proust, this book argues that at play in his thought is a philosophy of "ontological lateness". This describes the manner in which philosophical reflection is fated to lag behind its objects; therefore an absolute grasp on being remains beyond its reach.

Free Download Dorothea Olkowski, Gail Weiss, "Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty"
English | 2006 | pages: 292 | ISBN: 027102917X | PDF | 18,3 mb
More than sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings to feminist theory. His exploration of the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits is key to modern phenomenological thinking. But there has been little agreement on how Merleau-Ponty’s ideas ultimately have an impact on feminist philosophy. Does his emphasis on physical subjectivity lend a certain agency to all bodies, regardless of sex? Or do Merleau-Ponty’s specific descriptions of physical experience betray an intrinsic bias toward a male heterosexual point of view? The essays presented here by Olkowski and Weiss attempt to situate Merleau-Ponty in the larger context of feminist theory, while impartially evaluating his contributions, both positive and negative, to that theory.