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The first study of its kind to appear in English, The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty is a sustained ontological reading of Merleau-Ponty which traces the evolution of his philosophy of being from his early work to his late, unfinished manuscripts and working notes. Merleau-Ponty, who contributed greatly to the theoretical foundations of hermeneutics, is here approached hermeneutically. Most commentators are agreed that towards the end Merleau-Pontys philosophy underwent a strange and interesting mutation. The exact nature of this mutation or conceptual shift is what this study seeks to disclose. Thus, although Madison proceeds in a generally progressive, chronological fashion, examining Merleau-Pontys major works in the order of their composition, his reading is ultmately regressive in that Merleau-Pontys earlier works are viewed in the light of the new and enigmatic ontological orientation which makes its appearance in his later work. The merit of this approach is that, as Paul Ricoeur has remarked, it enables the author to expose the anticipatory, hollowed-out presence of Merleau-Pontys late philosophy in the difficulties of his early phenomenology, such that the unifying intenti

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Author

Gary Brent Madison

Publisher

Athens: Ohio University Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780821406441

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14