Originally published in 1988, M. C. Dillon's classic study of Merleau-Ponty is now available in a revised second edition containing a new preface and a new ...

_Situates Merleau-Ponty’s thinking in the last decade of the twentieth century, both with regard to general context and specific themes._.

This critical interpretation shows Derridian thought to be permeated by a semiology that reduces all meaning to the signification of signs thus challenging the philosophy of deconstruction at its roots.

Merleau-Ponty and Derrida articulate two overlapping but divergent ways of thinking about differentiation, ecart and differance. This volume represents the viewpoints of fifteen leading North American scholars working in the fields of Continental philosophy, phenomenology, and postmodernism. In essays written expressly for this volume, these scholars address the matrix of thought underlying contemporary responses to postmodernism at large and deconstructionism in particular: identity and difference, community and alterity, self and other, metaphysics and its closure, language and its beyond, signification and (...) referentiality. (shrink)

Este ensayo busca desarrollar una teoría del amor erótico basada en la tesis de Merleau-Ponty acerca de la reversibilidad de la carne. En el intento de distinguir el amor auténtico del amor romántico, y de elaborar el rol del conocimiento carnal que responde a la ansiedad erótica, este trabajo está específicamente dirigido hacia los aspectos cognitivos del amor sexual. Los antiguos temas griegos de la mímesis y de la nobleza (to kalón) son redefinidos mediante los conceptos de la reversibilidad y (...) la transferencia de los esquemas corporales, para generar un entendimiento teórico de los roles de la percepción y la encarnación en el desdoblamiento histórico de la incorporeidad erótica y revelar los valores en él implícitos. (shrink)