Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World

Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the WorldAssesses Merleau Ponty's contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others. Before his death in 1961, Merleau Ponty worried about what he saw as humanity's increasingly self enclosed and manipulative way of experiencing self, others, and the world the consequences of which remain apparent in

This thoughtlessness means dissolution of critical consciousness and

Inviting discussion on the pivotal role mental health plays in daily life

this collection begins with an essay on "Phenomenology in America: 1964-1984

reflects the refinements in scholarship and philosophical analysis that have impacted classical philosophy in recent years

popular culture and the media

women are indeed people—despite the lengths to which they must repeatedly go to prove it

A staple of the culture wars

and absurdism

and how they navigated local

Genres once accorded lower status-such as the graphic novel and science fiction-gained readership and positive critical notice

“One of the great poets of the novel

The book uses the method of "inverted midrash": while classical rabbinical midrash begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal (parable) as a means of further explication