Bernard Flynn is Professor of Philosophy at Empire State College, State University of New York, and he also teaches philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His books include The Philosophy of Claude Lefort: Interpreting the Political and Political Philosophy at the Closure of Metaphysics. Wayne J. Froman is Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University and the author of Merleau-Ponty: Language and the Act of Speech. Robert Vallier is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Assistant Director of the Honors Program at DePaul University. He is the translator of Merleau-Ponty's Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France.

1. INTRODUCTION

2. HOMAGE TO MERLEAU-PONTY
Paul Ricoeur
3. MERLEAU-PONTY: Beyond Husserl and Heidegger (1989)
Paul Ricoeur
4. THE TURN OF EXPERIENCE: Merleau-Ponty and Bergson
Renaud Barbaras
5. COMMUNITY, SOCIETY, AND HISTORY IN THE LATER MERLEAU-PONTY
Marc Richir
6. TRACEWORK: Experience and Description in the Moral Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas
David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
7. MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION OF SKEPTICISM
Bernard Flynn
8. THE ELEMENTAL FLESH: Nature, Life, and Difference in Merleau-Ponty and Plato's Timaeus
Robert Vallier
9. THE BLIND SPOT
Wayne J. Froman
10. PROXIMITY AND DISTANCE: With Regard to Heidegger in the Later Merleau-Ponty
Michel Haar
11. CHIASM, FLESH, FIGURATION: Toward a Non-Positive Ontology
Véronique M. Fóti
12. PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ICON
Jenny Slatman
13. ON THE "FUNDAMENTAL OF PAINTING": Chinese Counterpoint
Jacques Taminiaux
14. VARIATIONS OF THE SENSIBLE: The Truth of Ideas and Idea of Philosophy in the Later Merleau-Ponty
Mauro Carbone
15. THE BODY OF SPEECH
Françoise Dastur
16. BODY, FLESH
Claude Lefort
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX