Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
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978-1-5381-5308-6 • Hardback • May 2021 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-5381-5309-3 • eBook • May 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Jérôme Melançon is associate professor of French and Francophone intercultural studies & philosophy at the University of Regina.
Introduction. Jérôme Melançon, “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. Martín 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. Jérôme Melançon, “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”
Merleau-Ponty maintained a constant dialogue with the political that shapes much of his work in phenomenology and beyond. From the figure of the hero to the intersubjectivity of care to the question of the Anthropocene, Transforming Politics with Merleau-Ponty deepens our understanding of his philosophy while challenging us to think with and beyond him to address today’s most urgent political questions.
— Donald A. Landes, associate professor, Laval University, Quebec
Merleau-Ponty never set the political aside—it was always on the horizon of his thinking—as the essays in this collection so stunningly reveal. These fresh approaches to Merleau-Ponty’s political philosophy show how his ideas— though instituted through the events of his day—can enhance our thinking about contemporary issues such as decolonization, our relationship to nature, racialization and the possibility for radical change.
— Helen A. Fielding, professor of philosophy and gender, sexuality and women’s studies, The University of Western Ontario