Epilogue: On the Continued Relevance of the Preface Today

This chapter concerns the themes arising from the Preface and the discussions of it that continue to have relevance in contemporary philosophy. It considers a phenomenology of life, a phenomenology of the language structure and speech acts, “coherent deformation,” and interdisciplinarity. The chapter does this while also responding in a preliminary way to some of the criticisms of Merleau-Ponty historically made by philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-François Lyotard.