The Entangled Life: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Flesh and the Philosophies of Entanglement
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33823/eke.2025.2.2.365" target="_blank" >10.33823/eke.2025.2.2.365</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Entangled Life: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Flesh and the Philosophies of Entanglement
Original language description
This essay positions Merleau-Ponty's later ontology, particularly his concept of the flesh, as a porous meaning-making element through which we can reimagine the embodied relationships between humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems. Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of embodiment resonates with multiple philosophies of entanglement, such as ecophenomenology (David Abram's philosophy of the more-than-human world and the Humilocene), critical posthumanities (Anna Tsing's Plantationocene, Donna Haraway's Chthulucene) and Indigenous ecologies (Robin Wall Kimmerer's gift economy). Despite the limitations of Merleau-Ponty's humanist legacy, his explorations of flesh and perception move beyond a narrow focus on the human self, offeringa vital language for articulating the intertwined voices of human and non-human nature. In the essay we argue that this challenges the colonial mindset of separation between human and non- human and offers possibilities for a decolonized, more-than-human ecology.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
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OECD FORD branch
10700 - Other natural sciences
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Ecokritike
ISSN
3034-9214
e-ISSN
3034-9214
Volume of the periodical
2
Issue of the periodical within the volume
Vol.2, No.2
Country of publishing house
IT - ITALY
Number of pages
139
Pages from-to
167-305
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