Possibility of Philosophy (eBook)

Course Notes from the College de France, 1959-1961

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Autor)

Stephanie Menase (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4455-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The Possibility of Philosophy presents the notes that Maurice Merleau Ponty prepared for three courses he taught at the College de France: "e;The Possibility of Philosophy Today,"e; given in the spring semester of 1959, and "e;Cartesian Ontology and Ontology Today"e; and "e;Philosophy and Nonphilosophy since Hegel,"e; both given in the spring semester of 1961. The last two courses remain incomplete due to Merleau-Ponty's unexpected death on May 3, 1961. Nonetheless, they provide indications of the new ontology that informed The Visible and the Invisible, a posthumously published work that was under way at the same time. These courses offer readers of Merleau Ponty's late thought a wealth of references-to painting, literature, and psychoanalysis, and to the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Descartes, Hegel, and Marx-that fill in some of the missing pieces of The Visible and the Invisible, especially its often terse and sometimes cryptic working notes. We see more clearly how Merleau-Ponty's attempt to bring forth a new ontology indicates a fundamental revision in what it means to think, an attempt to reimagine the possibility of philosophy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2022
• Übersetzer: Keith Whitmoyer
• Vorwort: Claude Lefort
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• ISBN-10: 0-8101-4455-7 / 0810144557
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4455-2 / 9780810144552