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The Being of the Phenomenon Merleau-Ponty's OntologyRenaud Barbaras Translated by Ted Toadvine and Leonard Lawlor |
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An important book on Merleau-Ponty’s ontology now translated into English. Renaud Barbaras’s De l’être du phénomène: l’ontologie de Merleau-Ponty, published in 1991, is considered one of the most powerful and complete elaborations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s thought. Almost single-handedly, Barbaras has been responsible for reviving current interest in Merleau-Ponty’s works. In the first English translation of this important and influential work, Ted Toadvine and Leonard Lawlor present Barbaras’s rich and profound analysis of the history of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical development from Phenomenology of Perception to The Visible and the Invisible. Toadvine and Lawlor’s translation communicates the subtle thought of the original with accuracy and elegance. A translators’ introduction situates Barbaras in contemporary philosophical debates and develops his guiding insights into Merleau-Ponty’s thought. The Being of the Phenomenon opens European post-structuralism to further study and is certain to inspire new thinking about the origins of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology.
Renaud Barbaras is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Ted Toadvine is Associate Chair of Philosophy at Emporia State University.
Leonard Lawlor is Dunavant Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis.
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Distribution: World Publication date: 5/3/2004 |
