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.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Value of Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and the Modernism/Postmodernism Debate
Fred Evans and Leonard Lawlor
PART I. EXPLICATIONS OF THE FLESH
1. World, Flesh, Vision
Françoise Dastur
2. Flesh and Verb in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty
Henri Maldiney
3. Perception and Movement: The End of the Metaphysical Approach
Renaud Barbaras
4. The Paradox of Expression
Bernhard Waldenfels
5. ‘In Praise of Philosophy’: A Hermeneutical Rereading
Jean Greisch
6. The Thinking of the Sensible
Mauro Carbone
7. Is Merleau-Ponty Inside or Outside the History of Philosophy?
Hugh J. Silverman
PART II. EXTENSIONS OF THE FLESH
8. The World at a Glance
Edward S. Casey
9. Blind Man Seeing: From Chiasm to Hyperreality
Edith Wyschogrod
10. Merleau-Ponty and the Origin of Geometry
Marjorie Hass and Lawrence Hass
11. Embodying Perceptions of Death: Emotional Apprehension and Reversibilities of Flesh
Suzanne Laba Cataldi
12. Écart: The Space of Corporeal Difference
Gail Weiss
PART III. LIMITATIONS OF THE FLESH
13. Wild Meaning: Luce Irigaray’s Reading of Merleau-Ponty
Tina Chanter
14. Recursive Incarnation and Chiasmic Flesh: Two Readings of Paul Celan’s ‘Chymisch’
James Hatley
15. Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Theory on Experience
Linda Martín Alcoff
Contributors
Index
About the author
Leonard Lawlor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Memphis State University.
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