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68Merleau-Ponty’s Artist of Depth: Exploring “Eye and Mind” and the Works of Art Chosen by Merleau-Ponty as PrefacePhaenEx 7 (1): 244-274. 2012.The original Gallimard edition of Merleau-Ponty’s last-published essay, "Eye and Mind," which was printed as a slim, separate volume containing only this essay, includes a visual preface of seven artworks, chosen by Merleau-Ponty. This essay takes the key assertion of "Eye and Mind"—that rather than seeing depth as the “third dimension,” as seen traditionally, “if [depth] were a dimension, it would be the first one” (180)—and applies it to the reading of these artworks preceding the text. There …Read more
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Ecospirituality and the blurred boundaries of humans, animals, and machineIn Laurel Kearns & Catherine Keller (eds.), Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth, Fordham University Press. pp. 125--155. 2007.
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56Emotion and Embodiment: Fragile OntologyPeter Lang Press. 1993.This wide-ranging work explores what the emotions, "if approached on their own terms," can tell us about our world and our selves. By doing so sensitively, it fills a missing space in Western philosophy, literary theory and psychology, in which the emotions are seen for the first time as the primary way of understanding experience through the depth of the sensual-perceptual, rather than as mere handmaidens to reason or biology. The work weaves together diverse philosophical and literary works, f…Read more
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407The World of Wolves: Lessons about the Sacredness of the Surround, Belonging, and the Silent Dialogue of Interdependence and Death, and SpeciocideEnvironmental Philosophy 5 (2): 69-92. 2008.This essay details wolves’ sense of their surround in terms of how wolves’ perceptual acuities, motor abilities, daily habits, overriding concerns, network of intimate social bonds and relationship to prey gives them a unique sense of space, time, belonging with other wolves, memorial sense, imaginative capacities, dominant emotions (of affection, play, loyalty, hunger, etc.), communicative avenues, partnership with other creatures, and key role in ecological thriving. Wolves are seen to live wi…Read more
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Matter, dream, and the murmurs among thingsIn Véronique Marion Fóti (ed.), Merleau-Ponty: difference, materiality, painting, Humanities Press. pp. 72--89. 1996.
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20John Sallis, ed., Merleau-Ponty: Perception, Structure, Language: A Collection of EssaysInternational Studies in Philosophy 21 (1): 109-112. 1989.
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842La Chair et L'Imaginaire: The Developing Role of the Imagination in Merleau-Ponty's PhilosophyPhilosophy Today (1): 30-42. 1988.
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16Beyond Subjectivity and Representation (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (1): 152-154. 2003.
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16The Sky Starts at Our FeetEnvironment, Space, Place 3 (2): 7-21. 2011.Looking at the finding of several archeoastronomers, who examine the relationship of built cultures to celestial bodies, this essay speculates on the unique relationship of the inhabitants of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico to the earth and sky. The Anasazi who populated this region suddenly disappeared around 1000 A.D. and little is known about their culture, religion, and world except by studying the structures they left behind. This essay looks at their kivas, dwellings, the puzzling “Sun dagger” …Read more
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1037Time at the Depth of the WorldIn Kascha Semonovitch Neal DeRoo (ed.), Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception, Continuum. pp. 120--146. 2010.
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1348Merleau-Ponty and the Backward Flow of Time: The Reversibility of Temporality and the Temporality of ReversibilityIn Shaun Gallagher & Thomas Busch (eds.), Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism, State University of New York Press. 1992.
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440Earthbodies: rediscovering our planetary sensesState University of New York Press. 2002.Earthbodies describes how our bodies are open circuits to a sensual magic and planetary care that when closed off leads to disastrous detours, such as illness, ...
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313Touring as Authentically Embodying Place and a New World at a GlanceEnvironment, Space, Place 1 (1): 169-188. 2009.The critique of tourism as being only a distanced, detached, and consumerist passing through of foreign landscapes and cultures isdisputed in this essay. The idea that tourism necessarily fits the paradigm of inauthenticity as the tranquilized and alienated hopping from spot to spot in prepackaged, superficial presentations is contrasted with another sense of tourism as drawing upon the potential power of the glance to disrupt the everyday, to focus on the particular, to be surprised by the new,…Read more
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746Chaos Theory and Merleau-Ponty's Ontology: Beyond the Dead Father's Paralysis towards a Dynamic and Fragile MaterialityIn Olkowski And Morely (ed.), Merleau-Ponty: Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World, Suny Press. pp. 217--241. 1999.
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889Merleau Ponty, Inhabitation and the EmotionsIn Henry Pietersma (ed.), Merleau-Ponty: critical essays, University Press of America. 1989.
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34Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of Nature: Passage, the Oneiric and InteranimalityChiasmi International 2 223-245. 2000.
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1848Touch and Vision: Rethinking with Merleau-Ponty Sartre on the CaressPhilosophy Today 23 (4): 312-18. 1979.
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1064Cyborg Life: The In-Between of Humans and MachinesPhaenEx 3 (2): 14-36. 2008.Cyborgs are ongoing becomings of a doubly “in-between” temporality of humans and machines. Materially made from components of both sorts of beings, cyborgs gain increasing function through an interweaving in which each alters the other, from the level of “neural plasticity” to software updates to emotional breakthroughs of which both are a part. One sort of temporal in-between is of the progressive unfolding of a deepening becoming as “not-one-not-two” and the other is a “doubling back” of time …Read more
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22The Third: Development in Sartre's Characterization of the Self's Relation to OthersPhilosophy Today 24 (3): 249-261. 1980.
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40Raising Philosophical Questions about Health Care in Community SettingsTeaching Philosophy 6 (3): 221-229. 1983.
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352Human Ethics as a Violence Towards Animals: The Demonized WolfSpaziofilosofico, 3 291-304. 2011.This essay discusses how our traditional ethics may harbor assumptions that place humans in a position in which overt violence towards animals is an almost inevitable outcome since their formulation involves violence towards ourselves and our animal fellows in our cutting our embodied ties with them. The essay explores Derrida’s Animal that Therefore, I Am, in its detailing of the two discourses within European intellectual history of those who felt they were “above” animals and were not address…Read more
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845Merleau-Ponty's Concept of Nature: Passage, the Oneiric and Interanimality.Chiasmi International 2:223-48. 2 (223-48): 223-245. 2000.
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50Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring BoundariesState University of New York Press. 2008._Examines the overlap and blurring of boundaries among humans, animals, and machines._
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1Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Joyce's Ulysses: Is Derrida Really Bloom, Merleau-Ponty Dedalus, and Who Can Say 'Yes" to Molly?In Martin C. Dillon (ed.), Écart & différance: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on seeing and writing, Humanities Press. 1997.
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Facing Levinas: Merleau-Ponty's Physiognomic EthicsIn James Hatley (ed.), Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, Duquesne. 2006.
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