The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity

<div> <p>M. C. Dillon (1938-2005) was widely regarded as a world-leading Merleau-Ponty scholar. His book <i>Merleau-Ponty's Ontology</i> (1988) is recognized as a classic text that revolutionized the philosophical conversation about the great French phenomenologist. Dillon followed that book with two others: <i>Semiological Reductionism</i> a critique of early-1990s linguistic reductionism and <i>Beyond Romance</i> a richly developed theory of love. At the time of his death Dillon had nearly completed two further books to which he was passionately committed. The first one offers a highly original interpretation of Nietzsche's ontology of becoming. The second offers a detailed ethical theory based on Merleau-Ponty's account of carnal intersubjectivity. <i><b>The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity</b></i> collects these two manuscripts written by a distinguished philosopher at the peak of his powers-manuscripts that taken together offer a distinctive and powerful view of human life and ethical relations.</p> </div>