Before Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze, there was Merleau-Ponty. The author shows how his work formed an important current in sustaining the development of structuralism and post-structuralism. An illuminating and provocative book that brings new vitality to debates on contemporary French philosophy.

About the Author:Leonard Lawlor is Dunavant Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is author of Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology (Indiana University Press).