Mead and Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Common Vision

by Patrick L. Bourgeois and Sandra B. Rosenthal

Book Overview

This book unites George Herbert Mead and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in a shared rejection of substance philosophy as well as spectator theory of knowledge, in favor of a focus on the ultimacy of temporal process and the constitutive function of social praxis. Both Mead and Merleau-Ponty return to the richness of lived experience within nature, and both lead to radically new, insightful visions of the nature of selfhood, language, freedom, and time itself,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791407896
• ISBN13: 9780791407899
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.