In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (190861). Through a comprehensive analysis of the three main phases of Merleau-Pontys thinking and a thorough knowledge of his many unpublished manuscripts, the author traces how Merleau-Pontys philosophy evolved and exposes the remarkable coherence that structures it from within.
Alloa teases out the continuity of a motive that traverses the entire oeuvre as a common thread. Merleau-Ponty struggled incessantly against any kind of ideology of transparency, whether of the world, of the self, of knowledge, or of the selfs relation to others.
Already translated into several languages, Alloas innovative reading of this crucially important thinker shows why the issues Merleau-Ponty raised are, more than ever, those of our time.