... 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...

... Slavoj Žižek, in his recent major book Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (2012), lays out in exquisite detail his unique, heterodox interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy, an interpretation he has been developing and deepening since the 1980s. This intervention...

...THE POVERTY OF PHILOSOPHY Marx Meets Bourdieu Economic conditions first transformed the mass of the people of the country into workers. The combination of capital has created for this mass a common situation, com- mon interests. This mass is thus already a class as against capital, but not yet for...