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In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question of nature is almost entirely forgottenobscured in part by a myopic focus on solving "environmental problems" without asking how these problems are framed. But an "environmental crisis," existing as it does in the human world of value and significance, is at heart a philosophical crisis. In this book, Toadvine demonstrates how Maurice Merleau-Ponty s phenomenology has a special power to address such a crisisa philosophical power far better suited to the questions than other modern approaches, with their over-reliance on...

In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question of nature is almost entirely forgottenobscured in part by a myopic focus on solving "environmental problems" without asking how these problems are framed. But an "environmental crisis," existing as it does in the human world of value and significance, is at heart a philosophical crisis. In this book, Toadvine demonstrates how Maurice Merleau-Ponty s phenomenology has a special power to address such a crisisa philosophical power far better suited to the questions than other modern approaches, with their over-reliance on...

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has been hailed by many as the greatest French thinker of the twentieth century. As one of the founding members of the existentialist movement in the 1940s, he played a key role in introducing the work of Husserl and Heidegger into French thought and collaborated with Jean-Paul Sartre in the founding of Les Temps Modernes. His later work laid the foundation for the development of French thought in the direction of post-structuralism and post-modernism.

Merleau-Ponty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers gathers...

Resolving environmental problems calls for the negotiation of multiple, intersecting boundaries--natural, social, political, geographical, and ethical....