Transforming Politics with Merleau-Ponty

This book offers productive new readings of Merleau-Ponty’s political philosophy and of other facets of his thought.

Jérôme Melançon is associate professor of French and Francophone intercultural studies & philosophy at the University of Regina.

Introduction. Jérôme Melançon, "Situating Merleau-Ponty and Political Philosophy: Relations, Institutions, and Transformations." Chapter 1. Ann V. Murphy, "Phenomenology's Critical Turn: Ontological Rehabilitation as Reparative Method" Chapter 2. Emily S. Lee, "The Possibility of Emotional Appropriateness for Groups Identified with a Temperament" Chapter 3. Martín Plot, "Societies Without Bodies and the Bodies of Society. The Egalitarian Horizon in Lefort and Butler's Reading of Merleau-Ponty" Chapter 4. Paul Mazzocchi, "Homo Utopicus: The Biopolitics of Intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty" Chapter 5. Laura McMahon, "The 'Great Phantom': Habitus, Freedom, and Political Transformation in Merleau-Ponty and Fanon." Chapter 6. Bryan Smyth, "Freedom's Ground: Merleau-Ponty and the Dialectics of Nature" Chapter 7. Ted Toadvine, "Critical Ecophenomenology and Temporal Justice" Chapter 8. Dan Furukawa Marques, "Political Phenomenology as Ethnographic Method" Chapter 9. Jérôme Melançon, "Toward a New Balance a