Mauro Carbone is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon 3 and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His books include An Unprecedented Deformation: Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas (translated by Niall Keane), also published by SUNY Press. Marta Nijhuis is Lecturer in Philosophy and Theory of Images at the University of Lyon 3 and at EAC Lyon.

"Carbone reveals the invisible in Merleau-Ponty with musical grace and resonance." — Phenomenological Reviews"The elegant style of Carbone's prose—crafted with a certain cadence and phrasing, an inimitable world of language—nevertheless does not conceal the complexity of his scholarly research." — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Flesh and the Thinking of the Visual Today1. Flesh: Toward the History of a Misunderstanding2. It Takes a Long Time to Become Wild: Gauguin According to Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty According to Gauguin3. "Making Visible": Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee4. The Philosopher and the Moviemaker: Merleau-Ponty and Cinematic Thinking5. The Light of the Flesh: Anti-Platonistic Instances and Neoplatonic Traces in the Later Merleau-Ponty’s Thinking6. The Sensible Ideas Between Life and PhilosophyNotesIndex

Mauro Carbone is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon 3 and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His books include An Unprecedented Deformation: Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas (translated by Niall Keane), also published by SUNY Press. Marta Nijhuis is Lecturer in Philosophy and Theory of Images at the University of Lyon 3 and at EAC Lyon.

"Carbone reveals the invisible in Merleau-Ponty with musical grace and resonance." — Phenomenological Reviews"The elegant style of Carbone's prose—crafted with a certain cadence and phrasing, an inimitable world of language—nevertheless does not conceal the complexity of his scholarly research." — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Flesh and the Thinking of the Visual Today1. Flesh: Toward the History of a Misunderstanding2. It Takes a Long Time to Become Wild: Gauguin According to Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty According to Gauguin3. "Making Visible": Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee4. The Philosopher and the Moviemaker: Merleau-Ponty and Cinematic Thinking5. The Light of the Flesh: Anti-Platonistic Instances and Neoplatonic Traces in the Later Merleau-Ponty’s Thinking6. The Sensible Ideas Between Life and PhilosophyNotesIndex