Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity

Anya Daly completed a double-badged doctorate from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and l'Universite de Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France, in December 2012. Her thesis, 'The problem of the Other in the work of Merleau-Ponty: From Epistemology to Ethics' explicated Merleau-Ponty's implicit ethics from his accounts of embodiment, primordial percipience and his non-dual ontology. Anya Daly spent five years in France researching and teaching across various disciplines in undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs, returning to Australia in 2010. Since then she has been based in Melbourne where she has taught on a number of the undergraduate programs in the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne. Her research continues to be focused on the nexus phenomenology, neuroscience and psychology, specifically with regard to perception, destructiveness and ethical failure. Her additional research interests include creativity, aesthetics, the philosophy of psychiatry and Buddhist philosophy.

Introduction CHAPTER ONE: Alterity - The Trace of the Other The Dilemma of Plurality The argument from analogy The uncertain apprehension of oneself More certain of others: The body More certain of others : Artefacts and Art Merleau-Ponty and 'Style' More certain of others : Language Conclusion: From Trace to Flesh CHAPTER TWO: Alterity - The Reversibility Thesis and the Visible What is the Reversibility Thesis? Reversibility within the body's sensibilities Reversibility as it relates to external objects and world The Visible Vision and Movement Reversibility and the Other The body of the Other The Self-Other distinction Conclusion: The Flesh of the Visible CHAPTER THREE: Alterity - The Reversibility Thesis and the Invisible The Invisible: Reflection, Language, Expression and Culture"/p> The Reversibility of Reflection and Language The Reversibility of Language and the World Autochthonous Organization: The Logos of the World and Language The Reversibility of Linguistic Subjects Speech Writing and Art - truth and style Sartre's Aesthetic Dualism Malraux's Aesthetic Dualism Merleau-Ponty's Style Critique of Malraux's Style Merleau-Ponty's Historicity: Historical alterity The 'Ultimate Truth' - the reversibility of the Visible and the Invisible Scientistic perversions versus artistic vision