Ark of the Possible: The Animal World in Merleau-Ponty

by David B. Dillard-Wright

In his uncompleted last work, The Visible and the Invisible, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote of the thesis of "interanimality," a project that was to "make explicit" the connections between humans and other creatures. David Dillard-Wright uses the suggestions in the Working Notes to re-read Merleau-Ponty's textual corpus through the lens of animality. The "wild meanings" that result suggest new directions for philosophical anthropology as well as environmental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739129376
• ISBN13: 9780739129371
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"