Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature

by Ted Toadvine

Book Overview

In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question of nature is almost entirely forgotten--obscured in part by a myopic focus on solving "environmental problems" without asking how these problems are framed. But an "environmental crisis," existing as it does in the human world of value and significance, is at heart a philosophical crisis. In this book, Toadvine demonstrates how Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology has a special power...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810125994
• ISBN13: 9780810125995
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"