In Place of the Flawed Diamond

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In Place of the Flawed Diamond offers a survey and comparative study of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. In Peter Hadreas' view, Merleau-Ponty is influenced primarily by Husserl, Sartre and Heidegger. But the sources of Merleau-Ponty's thought cannot be circumscribed by an «intellectual narrative» which depicts his thought as an inheritance from celebrated intellectual forebears. Hadreas shows how Merleau-Ponty's thought differs from Husserl's, Sartre's and Heidegger's. The issues Hadreas discusses include Merleau-Ponty's revision of Gestalt psychology, his theory of the body-subject, and his posthumously published doctrines of the «flesh» and the chiasm. These last two issues, in particular, are contrasted with issues in Heidegger's later philosophy.

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Peter J. Hadreas

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This book gives a comprehensive reading of Merleau-Ponty's philosophical work from The Structure of Behavior to The Visible and Invisible. It brings out clearly the continuities in Merleau-Ponty's thought and thereby casts much needed light on the, at first sight, strange new language and problems of Merleau-Ponty's last work.
Hubert L. Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley.
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