Merleau-Ponty, Interworlds, and the Phenomenology of Interdependence

ISBN-13: 9781138292765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2026 / 272 str.

Anya M. Daly

Opis

This book aims to clarify interdependence as a concept and to reveal the ontological commitments that demonstrate how this notion can help us address a range of contemporary issues in ethics, politics, environmental ethics, and interspecies concerns. The term interdependence is often mentioned in contemporary political and social discourses without a clear appreciation for its conceptual commitments and practical implications. Daly addresses these deficiencies through cogent analyses of phenomenology that interrogate and reconfigure our understandings of the various natural, interpersonal, cultural, and political domains key to our living in a shared world. The book’s conceptual framework is organized around Merleau-Ponty’s non-dualist and relational ontology, which underpins human subjects and other living beings in what he calls an "interworld." Each of the seven chapters outlines a different interworld—natural, perceptual, aesthetic, linguistic, philosophical, ethical, and political—and shows how phenomenology as a philosophy of lived experience is uniquely placed to reveal the significance and background conditions of that world. The book also engages with the commitments and methodologies of other disciplines, notably psychology, neuroscience, and political theory, to shed new light on the vexing issues contained within these interworlds.

Recenzje

"Anya Daly provides an overwhelmingly convincing account of why Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of interdependency, or interworlds, is the one we need to understand our contemporary world where our lives are globally and locally intertwined with all species, with each other, and with the environment."—Helen A. Fielding, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Natural Interworlds: Rewilding with Merleau-Ponty and Monbiot  2. Perceptual Interworlds  3. Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetic INterworld: From Primordial Percipience to Wild Logos  4. Linguistic Interworlds  5. The Philosophical Interworld  6. The Ethical Interworld  7. The Political Interworld: Between Merleau-Ponty and Honneth

O autorze

Anya M. Daly is a Researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity (2016).