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Transforming Politics with Merleau-Ponty

Thinking beyond the State
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The contributors to this book offer productive new readings of Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy and of other facets of his thought. They each deploy his theories to adopt a critical stance on urgent political issues and contemporary situations within society. Each essay focuses on a different aspect of political transformation, be it at the personal, social, national, or international level. The book as a whole maps out possibilities for thinking phenomenologically about politics without a sole focus on the state, turning instead toward contemporary human experience and existence.
Jerome Melancon is associate professor of French and Francophone intercultural studies & philosophy at the University of Regina.
Introduction. Jerome Melancon, "Situating Merleau-Ponty and Political Philosophy: Relations, Institutions, and Transformations." Chapter 1. Ann V. Murphy, "Phenomenology's Critical Turn: Ontological Rehabilitation as Reparative Method" Chapter 2. Emily S. Lee, "The Possibility of Emotional Appropriateness for Groups Identified with a Temperament" Chapter 3. Martin Plot, "Societies Without Bodies and the Bodies of Society. The Egalitarian Horizon in Lefort and Butler's Reading of Merleau-Ponty" Chapter 4. Paul Mazzocchi, "Homo Utopicus: The Biopolitics of Intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty" Chapter 5. Laura McMahon, "The 'Great Phantom': Habitus, Freedom, and Political Transformation in Merleau-Ponty and Fanon." Chapter 6. Bryan Smyth, "Freedom's Ground: Merleau-Ponty and the Dialectics of Nature" Chapter 7. Ted Toadvine, "Critical Ecophenomenology and Temporal Justice" Chapter 8. Dan Furukawa Marques, "Political Phenomenology as Ethnographic Method" Chapter 9. Jerome Melancon, "Toward a New Balance and Interdependence: Merleau-Ponty on Colonialism and Underdevelopment" Chapter 10. Dorothea Olkowski, "On the Limits of Perception for Social Interaction in Merleau-Ponty" Chapter 11. Emmanuel de Saint-Aubert, "The Perceptual Foundation of Care"
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