Chiasms
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Chiasms

Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Chiasms

Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh

About this book

Leading scholars explore the later thought of Merleau-Ponty and its central role in the modernism-postmodernism debate.

Some of the best interpretations and evaluations of Merleau-Ponty's innovative notions of chiasm and flesh are presented here by prominent scholars from the United States and Europe. Divided into three sections, the book first establishes the notion of the flesh as a consistent concept and unfolds the nuances of flesh that make it a compelling idea. The second section adds to the force of this idea by showing how flesh can be extended to phenomena that Merleau-Ponty was not able to treat, such as the internet and virtual reality, and the third offers criticisms of Merleau-Ponty from feminist and Levinasian points of view. All the essays attest to the fecundity of Merleau-Ponty's later thought for such central philosophical issues as the bonds between self, others, and the world.

Contributors include Renaud Barbaras, Mauro Carbone, Edward S. Casey, Suzanne L. Cataldi, Tina Chanter, Françoise Dastur, Jean Greisch, Lawrence Hass, Marjorie Hass, James Hatley, Henri Maldiney, Linda Martin Alcoff, Berhard Waldenfels, Gail Weiss, Hugh J. Silverman, and Edith Wyschogrod.

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Table of contents

  1. CHIASMS: Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of Flesh
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  5. INTRODUCTION: The Value of Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and theModernism/Postmodernism Debate
  6. 1. World, Flesh, Vision
  7. 2. Flesh and Verb in thePhilosophy of Merleau-Ponty
  8. 3. Perception and Movement:The End of the Metaphysical Approach
  9. 4. The Paradox of Expression
  10. 5. “In Praise of Philosophy”:A Hermeneutical Rereading
  11. 6. The Thinking of the Sensible
  12. 7. Is Merleau-Ponty Inside or Outsidethe History of Philosophy?
  13. 8. The World at a Glance
  14. 9. Blind Man Seeing:From Chiasm to Hyperreality
  15. 10. Merleau-Ponty and theOrigin of Geometry
  16. 11. Embodying Perceptions of Death:Emotional Apprehension andReversibilities of Flesh
  17. 12. Écart: The Space of Corporeal Difference
  18. 13. Wild Meaning: Luce Irigaray’sReading of Merleau-Ponty
  19. 14. Recursive Incarnation andChiasmic Flesh: Two Readingsof Paul Celan’s “Chymisch”
  20. 15. Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Theoryon Experience
  21. CONTRIBUTORS
  22. AUTHOR INDEX