Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: The Speculative Realist Challenge and the Limits of Phenomenology 1
6. Part I – BODY
7. 1 Merleau-Ponty, Descartes and the Unreflected Life of the Body 23
8. 2 Nancy, Descartes, the Exposition of Bodies and the Extension of the Soul 50
9. 3 Divergences: Unity versus Dislocation 70
10. Part II – THING
11. 4 Things in the Phenomenology of Perception: The Paradox of an In-Itself-for-Us 85
12. 5 Things after the Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty’s Cautious Anthropomorphism 104
13. 6 Nancy’s Materialism and the Stone 119
14. Part III – BEING
15. 7 Merleau-Ponty’s and Nancy’s Engagement with Heidegger 143
16. 8 Two Ontologies of Sense 168
17. Bibliography 189
18. Index 197