Amazon review:
"Published in 2008 by Marquette University Press, George Marshall's _A Guide to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception_ is a welcome addition the corpus of English language existentialist scholarship. Marshall is a long-time professor of continental philosophy at the University of Regina in Canada.
While widely recognized within European philosophy as a leading contributor to existentialism and phenomenology (arguably eclipsed only by Husserl and Heidegger), Merleau-Ponty has been largely overlooked by readers reared in the Anglo-American tradition. Published in 1945 the `Phenomenology of Perception' is Merleau-Ponty's best known work."
"This is a guidebook that is primarily at “the North American reader,” who might find that Merleau-Ponty’s “paragraphs are sometimes too long”. As such, the guidebook assists with the task of translating Merleau-Ponty’s book into a more understandable format. Marshall is clear to point out that the guidebook is not meant as a replacement for the actual reading of PP, instead, it is meant to assist the first time reader in “undertaking such a reading”. To thisend, the book retains a largely neutral character, with the voice of Marshall and any critical interventions more or less minimal"
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