... This chapter attends to the reception of Merleau-Ponty’s “flesh” in continental philosophy. It begins by explicating Michel Foucault’s treatment of flesh, which Merleau-Ponty understands to be a product of Christian discourses about sin. It then turns to philosophers who are explicitly troubled...

... Maurice Merleau-Ponty incarnation perception ...

...The Philosophers’ (Christian) Flesh 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...

... color sensation experiment Maurice Merleau-Ponty Gilles Deleuze ...

... phenomenology Maurice Merleau-Ponty Frantz Fanon Blackness Sylvia Wynter ...

... 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...

...-Ponty Gilles Deleuze ...

... and the puzzling metamorphoses that those interactions produced in him. Social ideas and fantasies fell upon his body and transformed his flesh. Fanon begins his account by pointing to Merleau-Ponty’s descriptions of the body as composed through its interactions with the world. But instead of the harmonious...

... that those interactions produced in him. Social ideas and fantasies fell upon his body and transformed his flesh. Fanon begins his account by pointing to Merleau-Ponty’s descriptions of the body as composed through its interactions with the world. But instead of the harmonious encounters Merleau-Ponty...

... body (Blackness) resignifies religion. Fanon employs the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work on phenomenology as he reflects on the ways his own body is co-constituted by the world and others who inhabit it. Fanon’s phenomenological reflection on race (Blackness) offers the possibility...

... allows us to think about life, revolt, and world-making in the face of immeasurable violence. Chapter 4 explores how Fanon’s struggle to reconfigure his body (Blackness) resignifies religion. Fanon employs the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work on phenomenology as he reflects on the ways his...

... This chapter focuses on the social dimensions of the constitution of flesh, using the term “social-material flesh” to emphasize the intertwining of the social and material dimensions of what Merleau-Ponty calls the “flesh of the world.” The term describes society as incarnations of social...

... for epistemological considerations. Drawing on Jenny Slatman's reading of Husserl's and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological conception of the body, the chapter explicates how a body can be experienced both as mine and as a foreign thing. It prepares the ground for an epistemological critique that foregrounds our...

... This chapter discusses the performative character of France’s liberation from German occupation. It analyzes writings by Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus expressive of their hopes for transforming the French state into a socialist workers’ democracy after the war...