Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy

Suzanne L. Cataldi is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the author of Emotion, Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space: Reflections on Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Embodiment, also published by SUNY Press. William S. Hamrick is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the author of the SUNY Press book Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart, winner of the 2004 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology.

"For the environmental philosopher with little or no previous knowledge of Merleau-Ponty, the book would provide a challenging introduction to the multiplicity of interpretations of his thought, related, sometimes directly, sometimes tangentially, to the issues of environmental philosophy … these essays all deal with lived experience of nature, or how it is that there is nature for us." — Environmental Ethics"I like the way that serious Merleau-Ponty scholarship and a rigorously phenomenological approach are paired with the practical concerns, often illustrated in concrete detail, about the environment." — Phillip McReynolds, Penn State at University Park

• AbbreviationsIntroduction PART ONE. BUILDING, DWELLING, LIVING—BORDERING ON THE NATURAL 1. A Little Knowledge of Dangerous Things: Human Vulnerability in a Changing ClimateRobert Kirkman 2. An Inquiry into the Intercorporeal Relations Between Humans and the EarthKenneth Liberman 3. The Liminal World of the Northwest CoastPatricia M. Locke 4. Borders and Boundaries: Edging into the EnvironmentEdward S. Casey 5. Logos of Our Eco in the Feminine: An Approach Through Heidegger, Irigaray, and Merleau-PontyCarol Bigwood 6. Umwelt and Nature in Merleau-Ponty’s OntologyDuane H. Davis 7. Merleau-Ponty, Ecology, and BiosemioticsMaurita Harney PART TWO. EMBODIMENT, SOCIALITY, AND ECOLOGICAL VALUES 8. Earth in EclipseDavid Abram 9. Lived Body and Ecological Value CognitionJohn R. White 10."Fleshing" Out an Ethic of DiversityMolly Hadley Jensen 11. Social Ecology and the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray, and Ecocommunitarian PoliticsSally Fischer 12. Harmony in a Dislocated WorldJocelyn Dunphy-Blomfield 13. Merleau-Ponty’s Transversal Geophilosophy and Sinic Aesthetics of NatureHwa Yol Jung 14. Merleau-Ponty and the Ontology of Ecology or Apocalypse LaterMartin C. Dillon ContributorsIndex