Transforming Politics with Merleau-Ponty

The contributors to this book offer productive new readings of Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy and of other facets of his thought. They each deploy his theories to adopt a critical stance on urgent political issues and contemporary situations within society. Each essay focuses on a different aspect of political transformation, be it at the personal, social, national, or international level. The book as a whole maps out possibilities for thinking phenomenologically about politics without a sole focus on the state, turning instead toward contemporary human experience and existence.

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