Suzanne L. Cataldi is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the author of Emotion, Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space: Reflections on Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Embodiment, also published by SUNY Press. William S. Hamrick is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the author of the SUNY Press book Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart, winner of the 2004 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology.
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Introduction
PART ONE. BUILDING, DWELLING, LIVING-BORDERING ON THE NATURAL
1. A Little Knowledge of Dangerous Things: Human Vulnerability in a Changing Climate
Robert Kirkman
2. An Inquiry into the Intercorporeal Relations Between Humans and the Earth
Kenneth Liberman
3. The Liminal World of the Northwest Coast
Patricia M. Locke
4. Borders and Boundaries: Edging into the Environment
Edward S. Casey
5. Logos of Our Eco in the Feminine: An Approach Through Heidegger, Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty
Carol Bigwood
6. Umwelt and Nature in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology
Duane H. Davis
7. Merleau-Ponty, Ecology, and Biosemiotics
Maurita Harney
PART TWO. EMBODIMENT, SOCIALITY, AND ECOLOGICAL VALUES
8. Earth in Eclipse
David Abram
9. Lived Body and Ecological Value Cognition
John R. White
10."Fleshing" Out an Ethic of Diversity
Molly Hadley Jensen
11. Social Ecology and the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray, and Ecocommunitarian Politics
Sally Fischer
12. Harmony in a Dislocated World
Jocelyn Dunphy-Blomfield
13. Merleau-Ponty's Transversal Geophilosophy and Sinic Aesthetics of Nature
Hwa Yol Jung
14. Merleau-Ponty and the Ontology of Ecology or Apocalypse Later
Martin C. Dillon
Contributors
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