Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Merleau-Ponty (Continental Philosophy I)

420 This collection examines the development of continental thought after Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the increasingly uncertain boundary between philosophy and other intellectual disciplines. Its essays address thinkers including Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, Derrida, Habermas, Levinas, and Barthes. Together, they explore how phenomenology opened into structuralism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, poststructuralism, critical theory, and deconstruction. The volume considers whether philosophy can still claim a distinct method or subject when its central questions are also pursued through linguistics, literature, politics, and social theory. Particular attention is given to embodiment, language, interpretation, subjectivity, difference, and ethical relations with others. Rather than presenting a continuous historical narrative, the book maps a diverse field of arguments about what philosophy becomes when it confronts its limits and enters sustained dialogue with supposedly “non-philosophical” forms of knowledge.