Ebook: Merleau-Ponty and the face of the world: silence, ethics, imagination, and poetic ontology

Introduction : Merleau-Ponty's warning of an "endless nightmare" -- Part I Entering the world of expressive silence -- Hearkening to silence : Merleau-Ponty beyond postmodernism -- Language as a power for error and violence -- A difference silence and the world's gesture -- Silence, the depth of the flesh and its movement -- Silence sings as we do when happy : charged evanescence -- Language can live only from its roots in silence -- Indirect expression as silence entering language -- Silence, duration, and vertical time -- Silence arrives at the first day -- Part II Faces of the world : desiring sensibility and ethics -- Physiognomic sense and faces within the world -- The face of desire -- Merleau-Ponty's face of this world and Levinas's face of the other world -- Perceptual otherness, not absolute otherness -- An ethics of flesh : Saint-Exupéry, Merleau-Ponty, and felt solidarity -- Lateral unity versus vertical identity : kinship versus substitution -- The ethical alterity of depth of this world rather than absolute height -- Part III The imaginal, oneiric marteriality, and poetic language -- Early implied physiognomic imagination -- Sketches of the imaginal in myth, film, and children -- Imaginal of institution, sensible ideas, and Proustian sensitivity -- Later writings : toward an imaginal ontology -- Bachelard's material imagination and flesh of the world -- Toward a poetic ontology -- A poetics of philosophy -- Conclusion : sense and solidarity at the depths of world.