Merleau-Ponty Hermeneutics

by Thomas W. Busch

Book Overview

This book opens up new dimensions in the philosophical thought of Merleau-Ponty and addresses contemporary issues concerning interpretation theory and postmodernity. In Part I the authors employ the texts of Merleau-Ponty to challenge many of assumptions that operate in the current field of hermeneutics. They find in Merleau-Ponty the outline of a hermeneutics of ambiguity that incorporates his accounts of the human body, language, and temporality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791411397
• ISBN13: 9780791411391
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"