Nature and Logos: A Whiteheadian Key to Merleau-Ponty's by William S. Hamrick,Jan Van der Veken PDF

This is the 1st booklength account of the way Maurice Merleau-Ponty used sure texts via Alfred North Whitehead to improve an ontology in keeping with nature, and the way he can have used different Whitehead texts that he didn't be aware of with the intention to whole his final ontology. This account is enriched by means of a number of of Merleau-Ponty's unpublished writings now not formerly on hand in English, by means of the 1st distinctive therapy of sure works by way of F.W.J. Schelling during exhibiting how they exerted a considerable impression on either Merleau-Ponty and Whitehead, and through the 1st broad dialogue of Merleau-Ponty's curiosity within the Stoics's thought of the twofold logos—the logos endiathetos and the logos proforikos. This e-book presents an intensive exploration of the consonance among those philosophers of their mutual wish to conquer a variety of bifurcations of nature, and of nature from spirit, that endured to hang-out philosophy and technological know-how because the 17th-century.

“…an immensely very important contribution … Nature and Logos is an exemplary paintings of scholarship … Hamrick and Van der Veken current an exhilarating, inventive, and appropriate contribution to the continued job of experiencing and conceptualizing the profundity of the world.” — Worldviews

“Nature and Logos is among the most vital works on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy to seem lately. The authors’ erudition and painstaking scholarship tell their unique standpoint. this can be an necessary paintings, a tour-de-force delivering one other very important piece to the puzzle of figuring out the occasionally enigmatic later paintings of Merleau-Ponty.” — Duane H. Davis, editor of Merleau-Ponty’s Later Works and Their useful Implications: The Dehiscence of Responsibility

“This represents a distinct develop in philosophical scholarship. The publication provides to our curiosity and realizing of Merleau-Ponty and Whitehead.” — Robert Daud, Pasadena urban College

William S. Hamrick is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois collage, Edwardsville and has written and edited numerous books, together with (with coeditor Suzanne L. Cataldi) Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy: living at the Landscapes of Thought, additionally released through SUNY Press.

Jan Van der Veken is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy on the Catholic collage of Leuven and has written and edited a number of books, together with (with coeditor Patrick Burke) Merleau-Ponty in modern Perspectives.