Merleau-Ponty

This anthology of recent critical studies of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) and his work is intended as a useful text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy. This book explores the philosophical issues that Merleau-Ponty made central in his most important works, Phenomenology of Perception and The Visible and the Invisible: perception, embodied subjectivity, meaning, chiasm, reversibility, and flesh. Many papers included here apply the philosopher's ideas to problems that have the attention of scholars today, for example, in science and art. A comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Husserl, the founder of the phenomenological tradition, is also included. Contents: "Embodied Agency," by Charles Taylor; "At the Service of the Sonata: Music Lessons with Merleau-Ponty," by Elizabeth A. Behnke; "Chiasm, Line and Art," by Samuel B. Mallin; and more. Co-published ith the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.