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Poetics of the Flesh
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7493-0
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
The Philosophers’ (Christian) Flesh
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Published:September 2015
This chapter turns to flesh’s appearance in European philosophy in the mid-twentieth century, foregrounding the figure of flesh in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings. His philosophy moves from discussions of incarnation to the body to flesh. For Merleau-Ponty, the incarnation implies an understanding of the self as an embodied relation to the world. In his later philosophical work, he employs the image of flesh to name that which ties bodies and the world. Merleau-Ponty acknowledges the Christian echoes of his metaphors, which can be read as reinterpretations of the “carnal” strand of Christian imaginaries. However, he conceives flesh not as a relation...
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