Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World

Dorothea Olkowski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. She is the author of The Ruin of Representation, Gilles Deleuze and Feminism and Creative Life and is coeditor, with Constantin V. Boundas, of Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy. James Morley is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Richmond College, The American International University in London.

• Introduction: The Cotinuum of Interiority and Exteriority in the Thought of Merleau-PontyDorothea Olkowski Part One: Interiority 1. Inside and Outside: Ontological ConsiderationsGalen A. Johnson 2. Transcendence in Merleau-PontyMichael B. Smith 3. The Unconcious Mind and the Prereflective BodyEdward S. Casey 4. Merleau-Ponty and the Unconcious: A Poetic VisionDavid E. Pettigrew 5. From the Unseen to the Invisible: Merleau-Ponty's Sorbonne Lectures as Preparation for His Later ThoughtJames Phillips Part Two: Gestalt Connections and Disconnections 6. Sense and Alterity: Rereading Merleau-Ponty's Reversibility ThesisLawrence Hass 7. Bodily Logos: James, Merleau-Ponty, and NishidaNobuo Kazashi 8. Body Image Intercourse: A Corporeal Dialogue between Merleau-Ponty and SchilderGail Weiss 9. Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray in the FleshElizabeth Grosz 10. Segmented OrganismsAlphonso Lingis Part Three: Exteriority, Life in the World 11. Envisioning the Other: Lacan and Merleau-Ponty in IntersubjectivityHelen A. Fielding 12. Wildly—Other—Than—BeingWilhelm S. Wurzer 13. Chaos Theory and Merleau-Ponty's Ontology: Beyond the Dead Father's Paralysis toward a Dynamic and Fragile MaterialityGlen A. Mazis 14. AfterwordJames Morley Contributors Selected Bibliography Index

"…it presents a variety of diverging perspectives … [and] does an excellent job of representing the colloquy of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle." — International Studies in Philosophy"Olkowski and Morley gather in one volume some of the freshest and creative voices among contemporary Merleau-Ponty scholars. A wide range of thinkers (Schelling, Freud, James, Heidegger, Levinas, Butler, Irigaray, Derrida, Lacan, etc.) and integrated themes (feminism, chaos theory, intersubjectivity, the unconscious, etc.) are represented here. This work would be useful as collateral reading for a variety of courses in contemporary continental philosophy." — Patrick Burke, Seattle University