Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology, and Ontology
In: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 - Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics -- Chapter 1 - Primordial Perception and Artistic Expression: Merleau- Pontyand Cézanne -- Chapter 2 - Expression, Institution, and the Field: A Searching Itinerary -- Chapter 3 - Painterly and Phenomenological Interrogation in "Eye and Mind" -- Part 2 - Expression in Animal Life -- Chapter 4 - The Expressivity of Animal Behavior: Embryogenesis and Environing Worlds -- Chapter 5 - The Expressivity of Animal Appearance and of Directive and Instinctual Activities -- Part 3 - Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology -- Chapter 6 - The Role of Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Dialogue with the Rationalists -- Chapter 7 - The Irreducibility of Expression: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology and Its Wider Implications -- Concluding Thoughts -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Topics