Ambiguity and the Absolute

Frank Chouraqui is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Koç University, Istanbul. He is the author of several articles and chapters on Nietzsche and on phenomenological ontology He is the translator and editor of Louis Auguste Blanqui's Eternity by the Stars.

• Contents List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Nietzsche on Self-Differentiation and Genealogy 2. The Incorporation of Truth and the Symbiosis of Truth and Life 3. The Self-Becoming of the World and the Incompleteness of Being Transition: Vicious Circles, Virtuous Circles, and Meeting Merleau-Ponty in the Middle 4. The Origin of Truth 5. Existential Reduction and the Object of Truth 6. Merleau-Ponty's "Soft" Ontology of Truth as Falsification Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

"Ambiguity and the Absolute is very stimulating and well-written throughout, and makes an important contribution to scholarship in Continental thought. Chouraqui has a masterful and sensitive understanding of the extensive and eclectic writings of both Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty." -- -Duane Davis University of North Carolina, Asheville "The stakes are high in this elegant confrontation, dialogue, and ultimate convergence between Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the questions of truth and being. Well argued, original, and grounded in deep scholarship, Chouraqui's analysis and insistence upon the central ideas of becoming, self-differentiation, and falsification make a landmark and lasting contribution to phenomenological ontology and to philosophy in the environment of our times." -- -Galen A. Johnson University of Rhode Island "Frank Chouraqui must be congratulated. No one, until Chouraqui, has attempted to bring Merleau-Ponty and Nietzsche together. Chouraqui investigates each thinker in his own terms and context, without succumbing to anecdotal or linguistic similarities. Intentionality, and therefore phenomenology, is the hinge between the two thinkers. By placing intentionality at the center of their thinking, Chouraqui allows us to see philosophically significant connections between Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty, but also connections between each of these thinkers and other figures. Chouraqui's argumentation and interpretations are compelling and profound. Ambiguity and the Absolute is a great book." -- -Leonard Lawlor Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University