The Meaning of Life: A Merleau-Pontian Investigation of How Living Bodies Make Sense

Thesis advisor: Jeffrey Bloechl === This dissertation takes up Maurice Merleau-Ponty's unfinished project of developing an ontology of nature whose concepts are drawn from the phenomenon of life, rather than from human techne. I argue that the question of life has been hopelessly obscured by th...

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Main Author: Moss Brender, Noah
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Boston College 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103615