• Introduction
  Patricia M. Locke


• Part 1: Liminal Space


• 1. Hearkening to the Night for the Heart of Depth, Space and Dwelling
  Glen Mazis


• 2. Depth of Space and Depth of World: Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Rembrandt's Nightwatch on a Modern Baroque
  Galen A. Johnson


• 3. Finding Architectural Edge in the Wake of Merleau-Ponty
  Edward S. Casey


• 4. Liquid Space of Matrixial Flesh: Reading Merleau-Ponty and Bracha L. Ettinger Poolside
  Randall Johnson


• Part 2: Temporal Space


• 5: Spatiality, Temporality, and Architecture as a Place of Memory
  David Morris


• 6: In Search of Lost Time: Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Time of Objects
  Dorothea Olkowski


• 7: Inhabiting the House that Herman Built: Merleau-Ponty and the Pathological Space of Solitary Confinement
  Lisa Guenther


• 8: Stolen Space: The Perverse Architecture of Torture
  D. R. Koukal


• Part 3: Shared Space


• 9: Through the Looking Glass: The Spatial Experience of Merleau-Ponty's Metaphors
  Rachel McCann


• 10: Sheltering Spaces, Dynamics of Retreat, and Other Hiding Places in Merleau-Ponty's Thought
  Suzanne Cataldi Laba


• 11: Dimensions of the Flesh in a Case of Twins with Which I Am Familiar: Actualizing the Potential for Shared Intentional Space
  Nancy Barta-Smith


• 12: Dwelling and Public Art: Serra and Bourgeois
  Helen Fielding


• Contributors


• Index

Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty's thought to architectural theory and practice is well established. Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture is a vibrant collection of original essays by twelve eminent philosophers who mine Merleau-Ponty's work to consider how we live and create as profoundly spatial beings. The resulting collection is essential to philosophers and creative artists as well as those concerned with the pressing ethical issues of our time.
Each contributor presents a different facet of space, place, or architecture. These essays carve paths from Merleau-Ponty to other thinkers such as Irigaray, Deleuze, Ettinger, and Piaget. As the first collection devoted specifically to developing Merleau-Ponty's contribution to our understanding of place and architecture, this book will speak to philosophers interested in the problem of space, architectural theorists, and a wide range of others in the arts and design community.
Contributors: Nancy Barta-Smith, Edward S. Casey, Helen Fielding, Lisa Guenther, Galen A. Johnson, Randall Johnson, D. R. Koukal, Suzanne Cataldi Laba, Patricia M. Locke, Glen Mazis, Rachel McCann, David Morris, and Dorothea Olkowski.