The Thinking of the Sensible: Merleau-Ponty’s a-Philosophy

An original and innovative interpretation of the ontology of Merleau-Ponty - and themselves a significant contribution to the field of Continental thought - these essays constitute a sustained exploration of what Merleau-Ponty detected, and greeted, as a mutation within the relations of man and Being, which would provide him with a basis for a new idea of philosophy or a-philosophy . Carbone analyses key elements of Merleau-Ponty’s thought in relation to Proust’s Recherche , Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit , the new biology of Von Uexkull, Rimbaud’s Lettre du voyant , and Heidegger’s conception of letting-be . His work clearly demonstrates the vitality of Merleau-Ponty’s late revolutionary philosophy by following its most salient, previously unexplored paths.