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Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism

Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism

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Series: New Perspectives in Ontology

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ISBN10: 1399529900
ISBN13: 9781399529907
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Taylor Knight reveals the way in which phenomenology initiates a return to ontology construed through a dialectical relationship between being and element. Within phenomenology's return to the elemental, Merleau-Ponty's late philosophy is a key locus, opening critical paths forward into an ontology for the ecological age. With reference to his phenomenological forebears - Heidegger, Husserl, Levinas - his non-phenomenological influences - Bachelard, Schelling, Freud - and his dialogue with Greek thought - Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle - Knight shows what is authentically new in Merleau-Ponty's late ontology.

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