Toward a Political Ontology
Merleau-Ponty, Textures, and the Roots of the Theory of the Institution of the Social
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4437068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mattia Di Pierro (0000-0002-6271-1540) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 559-580 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-11850261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
In the early 1950s, the inquiry on the relation between perception and expression opened to Maurice Merleau-Ponty a wider field of research that pointed to what both unites and separates perception and expression, that is to say, ontology. This indirect ontology would have been presented in Le visible et l'invisible. In 1971, ten years after Merleau-Ponty's premature death, the journal L'Arc dedicated an issue to his thinking. The volume began with an essay signed by Claude Lefort and continued with articles by Cornelius Castoriadis and Marcel Gauchet. Indeed, as this article explains, in these same years, these thinkers were working in the legacy of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to find a new way of thinking about the social
La condition politique
Neo-liberalism and the symbolic institution of society
Dimensions of the World
Archaeology or interpretation
Maurice Merleau-Ponty et la genèse de la philosophie politique de Claude Lefort
Looking for a sociology worthy of its name
Événement, champ, trace
Claude Lefort's Political Philosophy
The Sensible World and the World of Expression
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |