{"product_id":"merleau-ponty-hermeneutics-and-postmodernism-9780791411407","title":"Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul McAuley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book opens up new dimensions in the philosophical thought of Merleau-Ponty and addresses contemporary issues concerning interpretation theory and postmodernity. In Part I the authors employ the texts of Merleau-Ponty to challenge many of assumptions that operate in the current field of hermeneutics. They find in Merleau-Ponty the outline of a hermeneutics of ambiguity that incorporates his accounts of the human body, language, and temporality in working out the concepts of interpretation, context, perspective, truth, and interpersonal transgression. Merleau-Ponty thus enters into a productive dialogue with contemporary thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Habermas, Levinas, and Derrida. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart II engages Merleau-Ponty with the \"many voices\" of postmodernism. Some of the most able Merleau-Ponty interpreters reveal the richness of his work through variant readings. Can Merleau-Ponty be construed as a postmodern thinker, or as a critic of postmodernism? To what extent can the concepts of flesh, reversibility, and ecart be made to function as deconstructive non-concepts? What can Merleau-Ponty contribute toward a postmodern politics? These essays move the discussion from Derrida to Deleuze, Foucault, and Lyotard.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892498088087,"sku":"9780791411407","price":3097.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780791411407.webp?v=1781187241","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/merleau-ponty-hermeneutics-and-postmodernism-9780791411407","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}