Things Seen and Unseen: The Logic of Incarnation in Merleau-Ponty's Metaphysics of Flesh - Couverture souple

Edgar, Orion

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0227175948 ISBN 13 : 9780227175941

Editeur : James Clarke & Co Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty was developing into a radical ontology when he died prematurely in 1961. Merleau-Ponty identified this nascent ontology as a philosophy of incarnation that carries us beyond entrenched dualisms in philosophical thinking about perception, the body, animality, nature, and God. What does this ontology have to do with the Catholic language of incarnation, sacrament, and logos on which it draws? In Things Seen and Unseen, Orion Edgar argues that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is dependent upon a logic of incarnation that finds its roots and fulfillment in theology, and that Merleau-Ponty drew from the Catholic faith of his youth. Merleau-Ponty's final abandonment of Christianity was based on an understanding of God that was ultimately Kantian rather than orthodox. As such, Merleau-Ponty's philosophy suggests a new kind of natural theology, one that grounds an account of God as ipsum esse subsistens in the questions produced by a phenomenological account of the world. This philosophical ontology also offers Christian theology a route away from dualistic compromises and back to its own deepest insight.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Orion Edgar (PhD, Nottingham) is Curate at Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: James Clarke & Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0227175948
• ISBN 13: 9780227175941
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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