Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 326
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-78661-199-4 • Hardback • September 2019 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
978-1-5381-4798-6 • Paperback • March 2022 • $39.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-78661-200-7 • eBook • September 2019 • $37.00 • (£30.00)
Dimitris Apostolopoulos is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University. His research focuses on European philosophy, especially phenomenology, and has appeared in venues like the European Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Research in Phenomenology, and the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.
Introduction / Part I / 1. Structure and Language / 2. Empirical Expression / 3. Transcendental Expression / Part II / 4. Scientific and Literary Expression / 5. The Linguistic Foundations of Ontology / Part III / Chapter 6. Language and World / 7. Ontology and Language / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index
Dimitris Apostolopoulos' provocative book introduces a new Merleau-Ponty, one for whom language and philosophy of language are so central that language is a concomitant or co-constitutive condition of phenomenology and ontology, alongside perceptual and temporal foundations. … His reading will stir debates in Merleau-Ponty scholarship and phenomenology and enriches the study of the role of language in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. It also leads to, but leaves open, deeper questions about just what language is and how it relates to what is prior to language.
— Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Dimitris Apostolopoulos’s impressive book traces the significance of language and expression to all of Merleau-Ponty’s oeuvre, both early and late. Somewhat counter-intuitively, he convincingly shows that philosophy of language is “first philosophy” for Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. This rethinking of the work of Merleau-Ponty is a must read for all those philosophers interested in phenomenological reflection and writings.
— Jack Reynolds, Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Melbourne