Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations List of Illustrations, Chapter 5 Preface William S. Hamrick Part I.: Context and Orientation 1. The Art of Perception Duane H. Davis 2. Concluding Scientific Postscript William S. Hamrick Part II.: Interpretations 3. Cohesion and Expression: Merleau-Ponty on Cezanne Jessica Wiskus 4. Echoes of Brushstrokes Marta Nijhuis 5. From Edmund Husserl's Image Consciousness to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Flesh and Chiasm: The Phenomenological Essence of Image Sara J. Northerner 6. Carnal Language and the Reversibility of Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Merleau-Ponty's Theory of Signs Bryan E. Norwood 7. Architecture and Voices of Silence Patricia M. Locke 8. The Philosopher of Modern Life: Baudelaire, Merleau-Ponty, and the Art of Phenomenological Critique Duane H. Davis 9. The Flesh Made Word: As I Lay Dying and Being Incarnate Cheryl A. Emerson 10. Listening in Depth: Reading Merleau-Ponty Alongside Nancy Galen A. Johnson 11. Art and the Overcoming of the Discourse of Modernity William S. Hamrick 12. Tactile Cogito: Horizons of Corporeity, Animality, and Affect in Merleau-Ponty Robert Switzer 13. The Chiasm as a Virtual: A Non-concept in Merleau-Ponty's Work (with a Coda on Theatre) Marcello Vitali Rosati Contributors Index

About the Author

Duane H. Davis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and the editor of Merleau-Ponty's Later Works and Their Practical Implications: The Dehiscence of Responsibility. William S. Hamrick is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the coauthor (with Jan Van der Veken) of Nature and Logos: A Whiteheadian Key to Merleau-Ponty's Fundamental Thought; author of Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart; and the coeditor (with Suzanne L. Cataldi) of Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy: Dwelling on the Landscapes of Thought, all published by SUNY Press.