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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction. In the Shadow of Philosophy: The Problem of Passivity in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty

Reading Merleau-Ponty

Three Concepts of Passivity

Summary of Chapters

Between Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: The Inversion of Phenomenology

1. Consciousness and Animality: The Problem of Constituting Activity in The Structure of Behavior

Consciousness and the Problem of Organic Form

Genetic Passivity in the Structure of Consciousness

The Epistemology of Form: Learning to Perceive (as) Animals

Autopoiesis and Transcendental Vitalism versus Melodic Forms

2. The Passivity of Life: The Problem of the Genesis of Possibility in Institution and Nature

The Generative Passivity of Life in Nature

The Spatiality of Generative Passivity in Life

The Time of Life in Institution: Beyond A Priori and A Posteriori

Bergson and the Becoming-True of Possibility

Foucault’s Criticisms of Merleau-Ponty’s Naturalism

3. The Passivity of Second Nature: The Genesis of the Person in the Phenomenology of Perception

Static Phenomenology: The Person as Irreducible Form

Genetic Grounds of Personality: The Bodily Temporality of Habit

Habit and the Genetic Passivity of Conscious Activity

The Soil of Habits: The Deconstruction of Generative Passivity

4. The Intercorporeal Institution of Agency: Merleau-Ponty’s Generative Psychology and Politics

Institution of the Person: The Birth of Sense in Nonsense

The Person as Instituted: Childhood

The Emergence of Instituting Personality: Puberty

Beyond Liberalism and Social Constructivism: Intercorporeal Agency

Conclusion. The Hidden Nature of Passivity

Interpreting Merleau-Ponty: Thinking on the Move

Gestures at Future Investigations

Notes

References

Index