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Merleau-Ponty: Institution-Ontology-Politics
Series: - Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, Volume: 30
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This book offers the first comprehensive study of the Merleau-Pontian notion of “Institution” (Stiftung), one of the most original yet least understood ideas of his late philosophy. Moving beyond its traditional phenomenological scope, it reveals how Institution brings into play a close interrelation between ontology, time, history, and a profound reflection on politics and political agency throughout Merleau-Ponty’s unfinished project. Tracing the concept across diverse perspectives—from embodiment and sense genesis to imagination, politics, and revolution—the book uncovers the deep unity of his late thought and its critical relevance today. It also shows how Institution opens new paths for contemporary debates in phenomenology, ontology, political philosophy, and aesthetics.
Ricardo Mendoza-Canales is a research fellow at the University of Lisbon, specializing in contemporary continental philosophy. His work explores how imagination, culture, and technics shape human experience as historically and socially mediated processes.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Institution between Ontology and Politics
Ricardo Mendoza-Canales
PART 1
Institution and Time: from Subjectivity to History
1 The Institution of Experience. Sense-Institution, Dialectics, and Imagination in Merleau-Ponty’s Late Phenomenology
Delia Popa
2 “A Logic within Contingence”: History and Institution in Merleau- Ponty’s Lectures at the Collège de France (1953–1955)
Matteo Pagan
3 “L’a priori est sol”: Institution and Geology in the Late Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
Giovanni Fava
4 The Adventures of Experience: Merleau-Ponty on Genesis and Institution
Ricardo Mendoza-Canales
PART 2
Institution and Ontology: Life, Body, and the Imaginary
5 Organismal Institution: Merleau-Ponty’s Dynamic Phenomenology of the Living
Jan Halák
6 What Style for the Flesh?
Giulia Lanzirotti
7 Merleau-Ponty Writing Today
Rajiv Kaushik
8 The Imaginary Institution of Being: Vortexes and Bachelardian Provocation in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology
Annabelle Dufourcq
PART 3
The Politics of Institution
9 Intersubjectivity, Sociality, Institution: Perspectives from Merleau-Ponty
Felipe León
10 The Political Genealogy of Truth
Frank Chouraqui
11 About “an Unprecedented Theoretical Revolution”: the Threads of a Weft
Mariana Larison
12 Intensifying the Question: Merleau-Ponty and the Institution of the Proletariat
Tamara Caraus
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction: Institution between Ontology and Politics
Ricardo Mendoza-Canales
PART 1
Institution and Time: from Subjectivity to History
1 The Institution of Experience. Sense-Institution, Dialectics, and Imagination in Merleau-Ponty’s Late Phenomenology
Delia Popa
2 “A Logic within Contingence”: History and Institution in Merleau- Ponty’s Lectures at the Collège de France (1953–1955)
Matteo Pagan
3 “L’a priori est sol”: Institution and Geology in the Late Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
Giovanni Fava
4 The Adventures of Experience: Merleau-Ponty on Genesis and Institution
Ricardo Mendoza-Canales
PART 2
Institution and Ontology: Life, Body, and the Imaginary
5 Organismal Institution: Merleau-Ponty’s Dynamic Phenomenology of the Living
Jan Halák
6 What Style for the Flesh?
Giulia Lanzirotti
7 Merleau-Ponty Writing Today
Rajiv Kaushik
8 The Imaginary Institution of Being: Vortexes and Bachelardian Provocation in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology
Annabelle Dufourcq
PART 3
The Politics of Institution
9 Intersubjectivity, Sociality, Institution: Perspectives from Merleau-Ponty
Felipe León
10 The Political Genealogy of Truth
Frank Chouraqui
11 About “an Unprecedented Theoretical Revolution”: the Threads of a Weft
Mariana Larison
12 Intensifying the Question: Merleau-Ponty and the Institution of the Proletariat
Tamara Caraus
Index
This volume is of interest to academics and graduate students in phenomenology and continental philosophy, especially those interested in Merleau-Ponty, ontology, aesthetics, cultural theory, and political philosophy.