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1806Touch and Vision: Rethinking with Merleau-Ponty Sartre on the CaressPhilosophy Today 23 (4): 312-18. 1979.
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1284Merleau-Ponty and the Backward Flow of Time: The Reversibility of Temporality and the Temporality of ReversibilityIn Shaun Gallagher Thomas Busch (ed.), Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics and Postmodernism, . 1992.
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1263The Flesh of the World is Emptiness and Emptiness is the Flesh of the WorldIn Jin and Gereon Park and Kopf (ed.), Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism, Rowman & Littlefield. 2009.
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1181Merleau-Ponty: The Depth of Memory as the Depth of the WorldIn Mickunas and Kisiel Lingis Silverman (ed.), The Horizons of Continental Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1988.
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1031Cyborg 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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1014Time 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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874Emotion and Embodiment within the Medical WorldIn Kay Toombs (ed.), Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 197--214. 2001.
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855Merleau Ponty, Inhabitation and the EmotionsIn Henry Pietersma (ed.), Merleau Ponty: Critical Essays, Center For Advanced Research in Phenomenology. 1989.
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823Merleau-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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820La Chair et L'Imaginaire: The Developing Role of the Imagination in Merleau-Ponty's PhilosophyPhilosophy Today (1): 30-42. 1988.
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730Chaos 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 orld, Suny Press. pp. 217--241. 1999.
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497Touring as Authentically Embodying Place and Glancing a New WorldEnvironment, 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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423Earthbodies: 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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386The 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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333Human 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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296Touring 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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277Our Embodied Friendship with DogsIn Steven Hales (ed.), What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Dog, Open Court. 2008.
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84Humans, 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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64Merleau-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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58A Commentary: Opening the CaveBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 5 (1): 88-93. 1993.none
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55Emotion 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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53Deep Ecology, the Reversibility of the Flesh of the World, and the Poetic WordEnvironmental Philosophy 1 (2): 46-61. 2004.This essay seeks to supplement Arnie Naess’s avowed project of replacing the often cited model of “humans and environment,” which retains a dualistic and anthropocentric connotation, with the articulation of a “relational total-field image” of human being’s insertion in the planetary field of energy and becoming. In response to the interview “Here I Stand” in which Naess rejects Merleau-Ponty’s ontology, this essay details the ways in which Merleau-Ponty provides the kind of ontology that Naess …Read more
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37Raising Philosophical Questions about Health Care in Community SettingsTeaching Philosophy 6 (3): 221-229. 1983.
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34Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of Nature: Passage, the Oneiric and InteranimalityChiasmi International 2 223-245. 2000.
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32Home Rediscovered in Embodied Space/Time, Emotion, Imagination and the Human AnimalIn John Murungi & Linda Ardito (eds.), Home - Lived Experiences: Philosophical Reflections, Springer Verlag. pp. 93-111. 2021.The phenomenology of home requires a differing notion of embodiment, perception, space/time, imagination, and animality. Home is in lived space, a deep psychic structure, and a dialogue with built structures and the natural world. Home requires cultivation that can increase our sense of belonging, shelter, direction and purpose. Home shows us trajectories of the back and forth dialogue with the inanimate world, deep past, ancestors, qualities of the things, animals and the natural world. Home is…Read more
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