Resistance of the Sensible World

Emmanuel Alloa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Senior Research Fellow at the NCCR Eikones.Todd Jane Marie :

Jane Marie Todd is the translator of more than seventy books, including Alain Besançon’s The Forbidden Image and Claude-Levi Strauss’s We Are All Cannibals.Barbaras Renaud :

Renaud Barbaras is Chair of Contemporary Philosophy at the Sorbonne.Emmanuel Alloa (Author)
Emmanuel Alloa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Senior Research Fellow at the NCCR Eikones.

Renaud Barbaras (Foreword By)
Renaud Barbaras is Chair of Contemporary Philosophy at the Sorbonne.

—Richard M. Shusterman:
Resistance of the Sensible World is a work of substance and erudition that focuses on Merleau-Ponty’s central themes of perception, language, and ontology. It is a welcome addition to the growing body of new scholarship on this enduringly pertinent phenomenologist.

Emmanuel Alloa's insightful book compellingly shows how Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is oriented by a resistance manifest in things and the sensible world... Alloa's book will be an important touch point on themes of resistance, passivity, and method in Merleau-Ponty.

Dave Ward:
...If Alloa’s book only partly succeeds in its aim, it is nonetheless an astonishing achievement. He distils thousands of pages of visionary published and unpublished work into one hundred lucid and insight-packed pages. Anyone with an interest in Merleau-Ponty will benefit from reading it. For readers with some knowledge of Merleau-Ponty’s influences seeking a concise introduction to his work, or for those familiar with one phase of his work seeking a window onto the other aspects of his thought, I know of no better resource.

—Veronique Foti:
This challenging yet engaging work is part and parcel of a vanguard of creative new scholarship that carries forward Merleau-Ponty's late thought so as to address contemporary philosophical concerns. What specifically it challenges is the ‘ideology of transparency’ that informs the Western understanding of embodiment, perception, language, and art. The book opens up new perspectives for a phenomenological ontology of ‘transphenomenality’ and ‘co-belonging.’

Emmanuel Alloa's Resistance of the Sensible World is certainly among the very best works on the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.