Merleau-Ponty Book

	Preface
	Abbreviations
I	Life and Works	1
1	Student and intellectual	1
2	The Structure of Behaviour	2
3	The Phenomenology of Perception	5
4	Professor and man of letters	8
5	The Visible and the Invisible	9
II	Phenomenology	13
1	Existence and essence	13
2	The natural attitude and its suspension	18
3	Being-in-the-world	22
4	The critique of science	26
5	Phenomenological reflection	28
III	Existentialism	36
1	Hegel's existentialism	37
2	Being and knowing	39
3	Being-towards-death	42
4	Merleau-Ponty and Sartre	46
5	The synthesis of being and nothingness	51
IV	The Body	56
1	The body-subject	56
2	Being my body	57
3	Merleau-Ponty and the mind-body problem	66
4	The flesh of the world	72
5	Who looks into the mirror?	75
V	Perception	80
1	Perceiving wholes	80
2	Objectivity and points of view	83
3	Rationalism and empiricism	90
4	Sexuality and being-in-the-world	92
5	The possibility of intentionality	98
VI	Space	101
1	The phenomenology of space	101
2	Subjective and objective space	105
3	Physical points of view	106
4	Spaces	113
5	Schneider's problems	115
VII	Time	119
1	The phenomenology of time	119
2	Temporality	122
3	The supplement of time	131
4	The transcendence of time	134
5	Time constitutes itself	135
VIII	Subjectivity	138
1	The cogito	138
2	Self-consciousness	142
3	The subject of consciousness	144
4	Immediacy	145
5	The trace	148
IX	Freedom	150
1	Freedom and necessity	150
2	Self-determination	154
3	Compatibilism	159
4	The refutation of determinism	160
5	The dialectic of freedom	163
X	Language	166
1	The refutation of linguistic rationalism and empiricism	166
2	Thought and language	169
3	Expression	170
4	The phenomenology of language	172
5	Language and philosophy	175
6	Ineffability	176
XI	Other Minds	179
1	Self and other	179
2	The deferral of self-presence	181
3	The trace and the presentation of absence	185
4	The refutation of solipsism	191
5	I and other	194
XII	Things	196
1	The essence of a physical object	196
2	Perspectival perception	198
3	Physical subjects and physical objects	201
XIII	Art	204
1	Is painting a language?	204
2	Art and science	206
3	Painting and the body	207
XIV	Being	214
1	The meaning of being	214
2	The invisible	217
XV	Parousia: Existential Phenomenology and the Return of Metaphysics	224
1	Subjectivity and the limits of science	226
2	Inside the soul	230
3	Spiritual space	234
4	Metaphysical time	235
5	What is it to be?	237
	Notes	239
	Bibliography	268
	Index	305