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The following pages attempt to develop the main outlines of an existential phenomenology of law within the context of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phe­ nomenology of the social world. In so doing, the essay addresses the rather narrow scholarly question, If Merleau-Ponty had written a phenomenology of law, what would it have looked like? But this scholarly enterprise, although impeccable in itself, is also transcended by a more complicated concern for a very different sort of question. Namely, if Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological descriptions of the social world are correct-as I believe they largely are-then what are the philosophical consequences for an adequate understanding of law? Such a project may well occasion a certain surprise amongst observers of the contemporary philosophical landscape, at least in what concerns the terrain of continental thought, and for two different reasons. The first is that, although interest in Merleau-Ponty's work remains strong in the· United States and Can­ ada, his philosophical standing in his own country has been largely eclipsed! by that of, first, his friend/estranged acquaintance, Jean-Paul Sartre; by various Marxist philosophies and critical social theories; and finally by those doing her­ meneutics of language. In my view, current neglect of Merleau-Ponty's thought in France is most regrettable.

Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice --- Law --- Existential phenomenology --- Droit --- Phénoménologie existentielle --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, --- 340.16 --- Academic collection --- Existentialism --- Phenomenology --- Philosophy, Modern --- Juridische logica. Juridische software --- -Merleau-Ponty, Maurice --- Existential phenomenology. --- Philosophy. --- 340.16 Juridische logica. Juridische software --- Phénoménologie existentielle --- Jurisprudence --- Merleau-Ponty (Maurice) / et Lois. --- Merleau-Ponty (Maurice) / en Wetten. --- Law - Philosophy --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, - 1908-1961 --- Merleau-Ponty, Jean Jacques Maurice, --- Merlō-Ponty, Mōris, --- Ponty, Jean Jacques Maurice Merleau-, --- Ponty, Maurice Merleau-, --- מרלו־פונטי, מוריס, --- Merleau-ponty (maurice), philosophe francais, 1908-1961 --- Philosophie moderne --- Critique et interpretation --- 20e siecle

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This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated perspectives on art and perception based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Although Merleau-Ponty focused almost exclusively on painting in his writings on aesthetics, this collection also considers poetry, literary works, theater, and relationships between art and science. In addition to philosophers, the contributors include a painter, a photographer, a musicologist, and an architect. This widened scope offers important philosophical benefits, testing and providing evidence for the empirical applicability of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetic writings. The central argument is that for Merleau-Ponty the account of perception is also an account of art and vice versa. In the philosopher's writings, art and perception thus intertwine necessarily rather than contingently such that they can only be distinguished by abstraction. As a result, his account of perception and his account of art are organic, interdependent, and dynamic. The contributors examine various aspects of this intertwining across different artistic media, each ingeniously revealing an original perspective on this intertwining.

Perception (Philosophy) --- Art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice --- Merleau-Ponty, Jean Jacques Maurice, --- Merlō-Ponty, Mōris, --- Ponty, Jean Jacques Maurice Merleau-, --- Ponty, Maurice Merleau-, --- מרלו־פונטי, מוריס,

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This is the first booklength account of how Maurice Merleau-Ponty used certain texts by Alfred North Whitehead to develop an ontology based on nature, and how he could have used other Whitehead texts that he did not know in order to complete his last ontology. This account is enriched by several of Merleau-Ponty's unpublished writings not previously available in English, by the first detailed treatment of certain works by F.W.J. Schelling in the course of showing how they exerted a substantial influence on both Merleau-Ponty and Whitehead, and by the first extensive discussion of Merleau-Ponty's interest in the Stoics's notion of the twofold logos—the logos endiathetos and the logos proforikos. This book provides a thorough exploration of the consonance between these two philosophers in their mutual desire to overcome various bifurcations of nature, and of nature from spirit, that continued to haunt philosophy and science since the 17th-century.

Ontology. --- Philosophy of nature. --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Being --- Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, --- Whitehead, Alfred North, --- Ontology --- Philosophy of nature --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice --- Whitehead, Alfred North --- Merleau-Ponty, Jean Jacques Maurice, --- Merlō-Ponty, Mōris, --- Ponty, Jean Jacques Maurice Merleau-, --- Ponty, Maurice Merleau-, --- מרלו־פונטי, מוריס,

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