Acknowledgments
Introduction: Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty's Work
Susan Bredlau and Talia Welsh
Part I: Grounding a Phenomenology of Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology
1. Toward a Phenomenology of Abnormality
Jenny Slatman
2. What Can We Learn about the Normal from the Pathological? Merleau-Ponty, Goldstein, and Neuropsychology
Gabrielle Jackson
3. Merleau-Ponty and Ab/Normal Phenomenology: The Husserlian Roots of Merleau-Ponty's Account of Expression
Neal DeRoo
4. The Abnormalcy of "Normalcy": Merleau-Ponty, Russon, and the Normativity of Experience
Susan Bredlau
5. The Need for Merleau-Ponty in Foucault's Account of the Abnormal
Hannah Lyn Venable
Part II: Practical Phenomenological Applications of Merleau-Ponty's Theories of Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology
6. Meandering Peripheries: A Ground without Figure for Relief
Adam Blair
7. The Insight of Dispossession: Examining the Phenomenological and Political Significance of Merleau-Ponty's Account of the Spatial Level
Whitney Howell
8. Moving without Movement: Merleau-Ponty's "I can" and the Memoirs of Bodily Immobility
James Rakoczi
9. A Whole New World: Reimagining Divergent Sensory and Perceptual Experiences in Autism through Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
Jennifer E. Bradley
10. Health and Other Reveries: Homo Curare, Homo Faber, and the Realization of Care
Joel Michael Reynolds
11. The Desexualization of Disabled People as Existential Harm and the Importance of Ambiguity
Christine Wieseler
Works Cited
Contributors
Index

Susan Bredlau is Affiliated Faculty in the Philosophy Department at the University of Maine. She is the author of The Other in Perception: A Phenomenological Account of Our Experience of Other Persons, also published by SUNY Press. Talia Welsh is UC Foundation Professor of Philosophy and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of The Child as Natural Phenomenologist: Primal and Primary Experience in Merleau-Ponty's Psychology.