Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination, and Poetic Ontology by Glen A. Mazis
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Overview: 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 our destructive inability to connect with others within and across cultures. In Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World, Glen A. Mazis provides an overall consideration of Merleau-Ponty s philosophy that brings out what he sees as a corrective prescription for ethical reorientation that is fundamental to Merleau-Ponty s thought. Mazis begins by analyzing the key role that silence plays for Merleau-Ponty as a positive, powerful presence rather than a lack or emptiness, and then builds on this to explore the ethical significance of the face-to-face encounter in his thought as one of solidarity rather than obligation. In the last part of the book, Mazis traces the development of what he calls physiognomic imagination in Merleau-Ponty s work. This understanding of imagination is not fancy or make-believe, but rather brings out the depths of perceptual meaning and leads to an appreciation of poetic language as the key to revitalizing both ethics and ontology.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Aesthetics
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