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Book SynopsisThe French philosopher Renaud Barbaras remarked that late in Maurice Merleau-Pontyâs career, âœThe phenomenology of perception fulfills itself as a philosophy of expression.â In Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology and Ontology, VÃronique M. FÃti addresses the guiding yet neglected theme of expression in Merleau-Pontyâs thought. She traces Merleau-Pontyâs ideas about how individuals express creative or artistic impulses through his three essays on aesthetics, his engagement with animality and the âœnew biologyâ in the second of his lecture courses on nature of 1957â58, and in his late ontology, articulated in 1964 in the fragmentary text of Le visible et lâinvisible (The Visible and the Invisible). With the exception of a discussion of Merleau-Pontyâs 1945 essay âœCezanneâs Doubt,â FÃti engages with Merleau-Pontyâs late and final thought, with close attention to both his scientific and philosophical interlocutors, especially the continental rationalist
