Overview
M. C. Dillon (1938-2005) was widely regarded as a world-leading Merleau-Ponty scholar. His book Merleau-Ponty's Ontology (1988) is recognised as a classic text that revolutionised the philosophical conversation about the great French phenomenologist. Dillon followed that book with two others: Semiological Reductionism, a critique of early-1990s linguistic reductionism, and Beyond Romance a richly developed theory of love. At the time of his death, Dillon had nearly completed two further books to which he was passionately committed. The first one offers a highly original interpretation of Nietzsche's ontology of becoming. The second offers a detailed ethical theory based on Merleau-Ponty's account of carnal inter subjectivity. The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity collects these two manuscripts written by a distinguished philosopher at the peak of his powers-manuscripts that, taken together, offer a distinctive and powerful view of human life and ethical relations. /
Full Product Details
Author: M. C. Dillon ,
Lawrence Hass
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Imprint: Ohio University Press
Volume: No. 43
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9780821419991
ISBN 10: 0821419994
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Dillon was a force in Continental philosophy in the US for more than four decades.... This volume will keep his voice and thought alive for years to come. -- Galen Johnson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island and General Secretary, International Merleau-Ponty Circle
Dillon was a force in Continental philosophy in the US for more than four decades.... This volume will keep his voice and thought alive for years to come. <br><br>-- Galen Johnson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island and General Secretary, International Merleau-Ponty Circle
Dillon was a force in Continental philosophy in the US for more than four decades... This volume will keep his voice and thought alive for years to come. - Galen Johnson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island and General Secretary, International Merleau-Ponty Circle
Author Information
M. C. Dillon (1938–2005) was Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. He was the author of Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology, Semiological Reductionism: A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Philosophy, and Beyond Romance. He served as the General Secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle from 1985 to 2005. Lawrence Hass is a professor of humanities at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where he teaches philosophy and theater arts. He is the author of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and Transformations: Creating Magic Out of Tricks. He is coeditor of Rereading Merleau-Ponty: Essays Across the Continental-Analytic Divide and From the 18th Century to the Present: Performance Magic on the Western Stage.
