MERLEAU-PONTY,
INTERIORITY AND EXTERIORITY,
PSYCHIC LIFE AND THE WORLD


Dorothea Olkowski and James Morley, editors

This book demonstrates how Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the continuity of inner and psychological life (interiority)
and the material world (exteriority) has broad implications for philosophy, the physical and human sciences, and health
studies. By taking the phenomenon of the body out of the dualistic constraints of interior and exterior, idealism and
empiricism, Merleau-Ponty shows us the possibility of a fresh vantage point for future research and therapeutic application,
linking philosophy more closely to the study of nature, the psyche, and social phenomena. Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and
Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World is proof of the power and creative energy of Merleau-Ponty's thought.

"Olkowski and Morley gather in one volume some of the freshest and creative voices among contemporary Merleau-Ponty
scholars. A wide range of thinkers (Schelling, Freud, James, Heidegger, Levinas, Butler, Irigaray, Derrida, Lacan, etc.) and
integrated themes (feminism, chaos theory, intersubjectivity, the unconscious, etc.) are represented here. This work would be
useful as collateral reading for a variety of courses in contemporary continental philosophy" -- Patrick Burke, Seattle University

CONTENTS:
Introduction: The Continuum of Interiority and Exteriority in the Thought of Merleau-Ponty. Dorothea Olkoski

Part One: Interiority
1. Inside and Outside: Ontological Considerations. Galen A. Johnson
2. Transcendence in Merleau-Ponty. Michael B. Smith
3. The Unconscious Mind and the Reflective Body. Edward S. Casey
4. Merleau-Ponty and the Unconscious: A Poetic Vision. David E. Pettigrew
5. From the Unseen to the Invisible: Merleau-Ponty’s Sorbonne Lectures as Preparation for His Later Thought. James Phillips.

Part Two: Gestalt Connections and Disconnections 6. Sense and Alterity: Rereading Merleau-Ponty’s Reversibility Thesis. Lawrence Hass 7. Bodily Logos: James, Merleau-Ponty, and Nishida. Nobuo Kazashi 8. Body Image Intercourse: A Corporeal Dialogue Between Merleau-Ponty and Shilder. Gail Weiss
9. Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray in the Flesh. Elizabeth Grosz
10. Segmented Organisms. Alphonso Lingis

Part Three: Exteriority, Life in the World
11. Envisioning the Other: Lacan and Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity. Helen A. Fielding.
12. Wildly-Other-Than-Being. Wilhelm S. Wurtzer
13. Chaos Theory and Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology: Beyond the Dead Fathers Paralysis toward a Dynamic and Fragile
Materiality. Glen A Mazis
14. Afterword. James Morely
CONTRIBUTORS
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Dorothea Olkowski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. She is the author of The Ruin of Representation, Gilles Deleuze and Feminism and Creative Life and is coeditor, with Constantin V. Boundas, of Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy. James Morley is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Richmond College, The American International University in London.

288 pages September 1999
paperback ISBN 0-7914-4278-0
hardcover ISBN 0-7914-4277-2