Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context: Philosophy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

This volume presents the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a great philosopher and social theorist of the mid-twentieth century, as a viable alternative to both modernism and postmodernism. Douglas Low argues that Merleau-Ponty s philosophy offers explanations and solves problems that other philosophies grapple with, especially through his focus on the lived-through perceiving body and its relationship to abstract thought and language. Low brings attention to a master capable of altering the landscape of modern and social philosophy in the twenty-first century."