Duane H. Davis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and the editor of Merleau-Ponty's Later Works and Their Practical Implications: The Dehiscence of Responsibility. William S. Hamrick is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the coauthor (with Jan Van der Veken) of Nature and Logos: A Whiteheadian Key to Merleau-Ponty's Fundamental Thought; author of Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart; and the coeditor (with Suzanne L. Cataldi) of Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy: Dwelling on the Landscapes of Thought, all published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments
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List of Illustrations, Chapter 5
Preface
William S. Hamrick
Part I.: Context and Orientation
1. The Art of Perception
Duane H. Davis
2. Concluding Scientific Postscript
William S. Hamrick
Part II.: Interpretations
3. Cohesion and Expression: Merleau-Ponty on Cezanne
Jessica Wiskus
4. Echoes of Brushstrokes
Marta Nijhuis
5. From Edmund Husserl's Image Consciousness to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Flesh and Chiasm: The Phenomenological Essence of Image
Sara J. Northerner
6. Carnal Language and the Reversibility of Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Merleau-Ponty's Theory of Signs
Bryan E. Norwood
7. Architecture and Voices of Silence
Patricia M. Locke
8. The Philosopher of Modern Life: Baudelaire, Merleau-Ponty, and the Art of Phenomenological Critique
Duane H. Davis
9. The Flesh Made Word: As I Lay Dying and Being Incarnate
Cheryl A. Emerson
10. Listening in Depth: Reading Merleau-Ponty Alongside Nancy
Galen A. Johnson
11. Art and the Overcoming of the Discourse of Modernity
William S. Hamrick
12. Tactile Cogito: Horizons of Corporeity, Animality, and Affect in Merleau-Ponty
Robert Switzer
13. The Chiasm as a Virtual: A Non-concept in Merleau-Ponty's Work (with a Coda on Theatre)
Marcello Vitali Rosati
Contributors
Index