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## Brings a new dimension to thinking about philosophical materialism and realism in the wake of phenomenology and deconstruction * Challenges speculative realism’s critique of contemporary Continental philosophy as correlationism * Uses Merleau-Ponty and Nancy to develop an ontology that respects the materiality and exteriority of what exists without reinstating the mind–world divide * Shows how Merleau-Ponty and Nancy overcome the Cartesian presupposition at work in current realist appeal to step out of our own thoughts to reach the ‘great outdoors’ * Provides an alternative to the phenomenological reduction of being to sense * Defends anthropomorphism as a way of overcoming the Cartesian–Sartrian ontology of the object Marie-Eve Morin proposes a reinterpretation of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and Nancy from the perspective of realist and object-oriented tendencies in contemporary philosophy. The realist critique of subject-centred anthropocentric thinking indicates the danger, inherent in the phenomenological approach, of reducing being to sense. Morin demonstrates how Merleau-Ponty and Nancy avoid this pitfall through the development of ontologies that respect the materiali

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Author
Marie-Eve Morin
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9781399519007
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Humanities

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