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Publication date:
10 April 2017Length of book:
200 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498513227
Michael P. Berman’s Merleau-Ponty and God: Hallowing the Hollow examines issues in the philosophy of religion through the phenomenological and existential writings of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961). Merleau-Ponty addressed issues like the nature of faith, the problem of evil, and the love and judgment of God. Throughout the book Berman explains and critically interrogates the religious perspectives articulated in Merleau-Ponty’s thought. Merleau-Ponty challenges us to think through these issues but always with an eye to our embodiment and perceptual experience. In this vein, Merleau-Ponty and God fleshes out the French philosopher’s treatment of God in his writings.
Merleau-Ponty and God will appeal to those interested in the philosophy of religion (inside and outside the academy), as well as scholars and students of Merleau-Ponty, continental philosophy, phenomenology, or existentialism.
Merleau-Ponty and God will appeal to those interested in the philosophy of religion (inside and outside the academy), as well as scholars and students of Merleau-Ponty, continental philosophy, phenomenology, or existentialism.
With discussions of religion, embodiment, and transhumanism prevalent in both philosophical discourse and in society more broadly, Berman’s Merleau-Ponty and God is a helpful and timely resource. In addition to fascinating insights connecting Merleau- Ponty’s thought to questions of the divine, what this book offers is the opportunity for further questions to be addressed regarding God in the field of continental philosophy of religion. This, though, is Berman’s overall intent. He writes that Merleau-Ponty and God comes out of his own personal wrestling with the question of God, and hopes that it will be “both evocative and provocative” for readers, whatever their life journeys may be (ix).