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Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The recent publication of his lecture courses and posthumous working notes has opened new avenues for both the interpretation of his thought and philosophy in general. These works confirm that, with a surprising premonition, Merleau-Ponty addressed many of the issues that concern philosophy today. With the benefit of this fuller picture of his thought, Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy undertakes an assessment of the philosopher's relevance for contemporary thinking. Covering a diverse range of topics, including ontology, epistemology, anthropology, embodiment, animality, politics, language, aesthetics, and art, the editors gather representative voices from North America and Europe, including both Merleau-Ponty specialists and thinkers who have come to the philosopher's work through their own thematic interest.
Texts of Merleau-Ponty’s, Abbreviated

Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy: An Introduction
Emmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, Rajiv Kaushik

Legacies

The Three Senses of Flesh: Concerning an Impasse in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology
Renaud Barbaras

Vortex of Time. Merleau-Ponty on Temporality
Bernhard Waldenfels and Regula Giuliani

Undergoing an Experience: Sensing, Bodily Affordances, and the Institution of the Self
Emmanuel Alloa

Between Sense and Non-Sense: Merleau-Ponty and “The Silence of the Absolute Language”
Stephen Watson

Mind and Nature

The Truth of Naturalism
Jocelyn Benoist

The Panpsychism Question in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology
Jennifer McWeeny

Merleau-Ponty and Biosemiotics: From the Issue of Meaning in Living Beings to a New Deal between Science and Metaphysics
Annabelle Dufourcq

Politics, Power, Institution

The Institution of the Law: Merleau-Ponty and Lefort
Bernard Flynn

Post-Truth Politics and the Paradox of Power
Frank Chouraqui

Institutional Habits: About Bodies and Orientations that Don’t Fit
Sara Ahmed

Art and Creation

Art after the Sublime in Merleau-Ponty and Andre Breton: Aesthetics and the Politics of Mad Love
Galen A. Johnson

Institution and Critique of the Museum in “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence”
Rajiv Kaushik

Deleuze’s “Philosophy-Cinema”: A Variation on Merleau-Ponty’s “A-Philosophy”?
Mauro Carbone

Strong Beauty: In Face of Structures of Exclusion
Veronique M. Foti

Epilogue
Merleau-Ponty: An Attempt at a Response
Jean-Luc Nancy

Contributors
Index

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Philosophie

Épistémologie

Philosophie de l'esprit

Esthétique et philosophie de l'art

Epistémologie

Philosophy

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Date de parution	01 décembre 2019
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Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy
SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Dennis J. Schmidt, editor
Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy
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Emmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, and Rajiv Kaushik
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Names: Alloa, Emmanuel, editor.
Title: Merleau-Ponty and contemporary philosophy / edited by Emmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, and Rajiv Kaushik.
Description: Albany : State University of New York, 2019. | Series: SUNY series in contemporary Continental philosophy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018059957 | ISBN 9781438476919 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438476926 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908–1961.
Classification: LCC B2430.M3764 M4675 2019 | DDC 194—dc23
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Contents
Texts of Merleau-Ponty’s, Abbreviated
Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy: An Introduction
Emmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, Rajiv Kaushik
Legacies
The Three Senses of Flesh: Concerning an Impasse in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology
Renaud Barbaras
Vortex of Time. Merleau-Ponty on Temporality
Bernhard Waldenfels and Regula Giuliani
Undergoing an Experience: Sensing, Bodily Affordances, and the Institution of the Self
Emmanuel Alloa
Between Sense and Non-Sense: Merleau-Ponty and “The Silence of the Absolute Language”
Stephen Watson
Mind and Nature
The Truth of Naturalism
Jocelyn Benoist
The Panpsychism Question in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology
Jennifer McWeeny
Merleau-Ponty and Biosemiotics: From the Issue of Meaning in Living Beings to a New Deal between Science and Metaphysics
Annabelle Dufourcq
Politics, Power, Institution
The Institution of the Law: Merleau-Ponty and Lefort
Bernard Flynn
Post-Truth Politics and the Paradox of Power
Frank Chouraqui
Institutional Habits: About Bodies and Orientations that Don’t Fit
Sara Ahmed
Art and Creation
Art after the Sublime in Merleau-Ponty and André Breton: Aesthetics and the Politics of Mad Love
Galen A. Johnson
Institution and Critique of the Museum in “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence”
Rajiv Kaushik
Deleuze’s “Philosophy-Cinema”: A Variation on Merleau-Ponty’s “A-Philosophy”?
Mauro Carbone
Strong Beauty: In Face of Structures of Exclusion
Véronique M. Fóti
Epilogue Merleau-Ponty: An Attempt at a Response
Jean-Luc Nancy
Contributors
Index
Texts of Merleau-Ponty’s, Abbreviated
If not otherwise indicated, and whenever available, the numbers indicated refer to the English edition of the following texts. AD Adventures of the Dialectic , trans. Joseph Bien, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973 (orig. Les aventures de la dialectique , Paris: Gallimard, 1955). HT Humanism and Terror. An Essay on the Communist Problem , trans. John O’Neill, Boston: Beacon Press 1969 (orig. Humanisme et terreur , Paris: Gallimard, 1947) WP The World of Perception , trans. Oliver Davis, London: Routledge, 2004 (orig. Causeries , 1948. Edited with notes by Stéphanie Ménasé. Paris: Seuil, 2002) CPP Child Psychology and Pedagogy: The Sorbonne Lectures, 1949–1952 , ed. James M. Edie, Anthony J. Steinbock, and John McCumber, translated by Talia Welsh, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2010 (orig. Psychologie et pédagogie de l’enfant: Cours de Sorbonne, 1949–1952 . Lagrasse: Verdier, 2001) EM “Eye and Mind,” translated by Carleton Dallery, in The Primacy of Perception and Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History, and Politics , 159–90. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964 (orig. L’oeil et l’esprit [Paris: Gallimard, 1964]) HLP “Husserl aux limites de la phénoménologie,” ed. Franck Robert, Merleau-Ponty, in Notes de cours sur l’Origine de la géométrie de Husserl , ed. Renaud Barbaras, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1998 IP Institution and Passivity: Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954–1955) , foreword by Claude Lefort, trans. Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2010 (orig. L’ institution-La passivité: Notes de cours au Collège de France (1954–1955) , Paris: Éditions Belin, 2003) IPP In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays , trans. John Wild and James Edie, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1988 (orig. Éloge de la philosophie et autres essais . Paris: Gallimard, 1953) N Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France , ed. with notes by Dominique Séglard, trans. by Robert Vallier, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003 (orig. La nature: Notes, cours du Collège de France . Edited with notes by Dominique Séglard. Paris: Seuil, 1995) NC Notes de cours au Collège de France 1958–1959 et 1960–1961 . Edited by Stéphanie Ménasé with a preface by Claude Lefort. Paris: Gallimard, 1996 PP Phenomenology of Perception , trans. Donald A. Landes, London: Routledge, 2012 (orig. La phénoménologie de la perception . Paris: Gallimard, 1945) PrP The Primacy of Perception and Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History, and Politics , Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964 PW The Prose of the World , ed. Claude Lefort, translated by John O’Neill. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973 (orig. La prose du monde . Edited with an introduction by Claude Lefort. Paris: Gallimard, 1969) S Signs , trans. with an introduction by Richard S. McCleary. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964 (orig. Signes . Paris: Gallimard, 1960) SB The Structure of Behavior , trans. Alden L. Fisher, foreword by John Wild, Boston: Beacon Press, 1963 (orig. La structure du comportement , Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1942) SNS Sense and Non-Sense , trans. with a preface by Hubert Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964 (orig. Sens et non-sens . 1948. Paris: Gallimard, 1996) TLC Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France, 1952–1960 , trans. John O’Neill, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970 (orig. Résumés de cours, Collège de France, 1952–1960 , Paris: Gallimard, 1968) VI The Visible and the Invisible, Followed by Working Notes, ed. Claude Lefort, trans. Alphonso Lingis. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968 (orig. Le visible et l’ invisible , Paris: Gallimard, 1964)
Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy
An Introduction
E MMANUEL A LLOA , F RANK C HOURAQUI , R AJIV K AUSHIK
D espite the premature interruption of his work, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) has left a lasting mark on twentieth-century thinking. Thanks to a large body of scholarship on his thought after his death, he is now part of the canon and a key figure within both phenomenology and twentieth-century philosophy more broadly. In addition, his own readings of the history of philosophy continue to attract interest and he has also become an authoritative reference in many other fields of research. This last point deserves to be stressed: at a time when philosophy is increasingly being institutionalized and reduced to its so-called core competencies, we should recall that Merleau-Ponty’s place in the canon is due in large part to the breadth of his studies, including his ability to implicate philosophy in the sciences and vice versa. That he steadfastly refuses to marginalize both what is central to philosophy and other practices of knowledge betrays a point about what philosophy is and what counts as philosophy. Rather than proceeding from a systematic core which he later merely applied to other fields, Merleau-Ponty engaged in a demanding encounter between philosophy and other disciplines to such an extent that he reconceptualized some of philosophy’s most central concerns. He has now become, in other words, a canonical philosopher precisely because he opposes neither the traditional principles and foundations of philosophy nor the new sciences of his time and the intellectual enigmas they generated.
That the sciences are able to reorganize philosophy implies that, to Merleau-Ponty, philosophy is not the “absolute science” to which the natural sciences would merely be relative. In fact, Merleau-Ponty seems to operate with a thoroughly contemporary notion of both philosophy and all other epistemic practices. It is this fundamental reconceptualization of philosophy, and all of the new possible lines of investigation such reconceptualization opens, which seems to us most alive today.
In light of this fundamental shift, this volume is not an overarching survey of interdisciplinary interests, but it defends a central thesis that serves as a through-line: Merleau-Ponty’s work involves a certain reinvigoration of philosophy that opens toward some of the contemporary issues with which we are still to this day concerned. The explorations of the relationship between philosophy and non-philosophy, as Merleau-Ponty called what might also be termed philosophy’s “outside,” have been praised for their methodological topicality, for a metatheoretical reflection about the relationship between forms of knowledge. Moreover, as this volume shows, Merleau-Ponty’s writings not only yield metatheoretical insights concerning methods but also remain relevant in terms of concrete ideas, for example in the many inventive conceptual attempts for moving beyond the dualism of natur