{"product_id":"9781461640127","title":"Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-Humanism","description":"In this important new book, Diana Coole shows how existential phenomenology illuminates and enlivens our understanding of politics. Merleau-Ponty's focus on embodied experience allows us to approach political life in a manner that is both critical and engaged. With breadth of vision and penetrating insight, Coole demonstrates that political questions were always central to Merleau-Ponty's philosophical project. Her examination of his complete body of work presents us with a rigorous philosophy that maintains our capacities for agency despite moving beyond a philosophy of the subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-humanism\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major work on Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy in over two decades. Coole presents his later philosophy of \u003ci\u003eflesh\u003c\/i\u003e as the outline for a new understanding of the political, which forms the basis for reconsidering humanism after, but also through, anti-humanism. She also shows how Merleau-Ponty's concern with contingency anticipated arguments by thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze, while sustaining a robust sense of politics as the domain of collective life. The result is a philosophical analysis that speaks to our contemporary concerns in which we seek a coherent account of our actions, our environment and ourselves, such that we might become exemplary political actors within a complex and uncertain world.","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129383207152,"sku":"9781461640127","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781461640127_p0.jpg?v=1769889537","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781461640127","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}