Introduction: Perception and Its Development

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. A Note on Citations xiii
5. Introduction: Perception and Its Development 3
6. PART I. Passivity and Intersubjectivity
7. 1. Freedom and Passivity: Attention, Work, and Language 25
8. 2. The Image and the Workspace: Merleau-Ponty and Levinas on Passivity and Rhythmic Subjectivity 40
9. 3. The “Entre-Deux” of Emotions: Emotions as Institutions 51
10. 4. Perceiving through Another: Incorporation and the Child Perceiver 81
11. PART II. Generality and Objectivity
12. 5. Neglecting Space: Making Sense of a Partial Loss of One’s World through a Phenomenological Account of the Spatiality of Embodiment 101
13. 6. Moving into Being: The Motor Basis of Perception, Balance, and Reading 123
14. 7. On the Nature of Space: Getting from Motricity to Reflection and Back Again 142
15. 8. Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Natural Time 159
16. PART III. Meaning and Ambiguity
17. 9. Institution, Expression, and the Temporality of Meaning in Merleau-Ponty 193
18. 10. Implications of Merleau-Ponty’s Account of Binocularity 221
19. 11. Alterity and Expression in Merleau-Ponty: A Response to Levinas 242
20. PART IV. Expression
21. 12. Aesthetic Ideas: Developing the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty with the Art of Matta-Clark 253
22. 13. Flesh as the Space of Mourning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Meets Ana Mendieta 272
23. 14. Phenomenology and the Body Politic: Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and Democracy 283
24. 15. Phenomenology as First-Order Perception: Speech, Vision, and Reflection in Merleau-Ponty 308
25. Bibliography 339
26. Contributors 361
27. Index 367