{"product_id":"whitehead-and-merleau-ponty-andrew-t-kirkpatrick-9798855809442","title":"Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Process Phenomenology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive synthesis of the thought of Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhitehead and Merleau-Ponty\u003c\/i\u003e sets out to answer a simple question: \"What kind of phenomenologist is Merleau-Ponty?\" While debates regarding the status of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology typically fall along transcendental or existential lines, author Andrew Kirkpatrick shows how Merleau-Ponty's thought fails to fit neatly within either category. Drawing on Whitehead's process metaphysics, he demonstrates how Merleau-Ponty's thought transcends the limitations of both transcendental and existential descriptions and results in a new style of phenomenology altogether: a process phenomenology. More than just a Whiteheadian reading of Merleau-Ponty, this is a synthesis that also offers novel insights into Whiteheadian thought. It is in this sense that the question \"What kind of phenomenologist was Merleau-Ponty?\" also results in a novel interpretation of Whitehead. In uniting Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological description of lived experience with Whitehead's process metaphysics, a process phenomenology ultimately enlarges the philosophical dictionary. It does so by providing the method, vocabulary, and conceptual means through which we can embody, describe, and live out a process of process metaphysics of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew T. Kirkpatrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798855809442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.04d","brand":"Andrew T. Kirkpatrick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659803406591,"sku":"9798855809442","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whitehead-and-merleau-ponty-andrew-t-kirkpatrick-9798855809442","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}