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- Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. vii
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- pp. ix-x
- CHAPTER 1: World, Flesh, Vision
- pp. 23-49
- CHAPTER 4: The Paradox of Expression
- pp. 89-102
- CHAPTER 6: The Thinking of the Sensible
- pp. 121-130
- CHAPTER 8: The World at a Glance
- pp. 147-164
- CHAPTER 12:
- pp. 203-216
- CONTRIBUTORS
- pp. 273-276
- AUTHOR INDEX
- pp. 277-280
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791492031
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
50553604
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No