1. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Humanism and Terror (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), p. xiv.

2. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962), p. 127; Phénoménologie de la perception (Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 2nd edition, 1945), p. 147. Hereafter, the English title will be cited as "PPE" and the original French as "PPF". break

3. Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible (Evanston, IL: North-western University Press, 1979), p. 151; Le Visible et l'Invisible (Paris: Gallimard, 1964), p. 198. The English will be cited hereafter as "VIE," the French as "VIF."

4. Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power," in H. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), p. 216.

5. Charles Baudelaire, "La fausse monnaie," Oeuvres Complètes (Paris: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1975), vol. 1, p. 319; Paris Spleen (New York: New Directions, 1970), p. 53.

6. Merleau-Ponty, "The Child's Relations with Others," in The Primacy of Perception (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1964), p. 106; "Les Relations avec Autrui Chez l'Enfant" (Paris: Centre du Documentation Universitaire, 1975), p. 15. Hereafter, the English will be cited as "CRO," while the original French will be cited as "CROF."

7. Merleau-Ponty, "Eye and Mind," in The Primacy of Perception , 1964), p. 188. Hereafter, references to this essay will be cited as "EM."

8. See my essay, "Tracework: Experience and Description in the Moral Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas," in a forthcoming collection edited by Wayne Froman and published by Northwestern University Press.

9. Merleau-Ponty, "The Concept of Nature" I, in Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France , 1952-1960 (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970), p. 82; "Le Concept de Nature," 1956-57, in Résumés de Cours, Collège de France , 1952-1960 (Paris: Gallimard, 1968), p. 115.

10. See David Michael Levin, "Visions of Narcissism: Intersubjectivity and the Reversals of Reflection," in Martin C. Dillon (ed.), Merleau-Ponty Vivant (Albany: State University of New York, 1991), pp. 47-90.

11. See David Michael Levin, "Justice in the Flesh," in Galen A. Johnson and Michael B. Smith (eds.), Ontology and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1990), pp. 35-44.

12. See David Michael Levin, "Transpersonal Phenomenology and the Corporeal Schema," in The Humanistic Psychologist , vol. 16, no. 2 (autumn 1988), pp. 282-313. Also see Giorgio Agamben, Infanzia e Storia: Distruzione dell 'Esperienza e Origine della Storia (Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1979), and Il Linguaggio e la Morte: Seminario sul Luogo della Negatività (Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1982).

13. Stéphane Mallarmé, "Prose," in Oeuvres complètes , ed. by Henri Mondor and G. Jean-Aubry (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1945), p. 57.

14. Merleau-Ponty, Sense and Non-Sense (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964), p. 143; for the French original, see Sens et Non-sens (Paris: Editions Nagel, 1948), p. 252.

15. See David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (New York: Pantheon, 1996). I have also benefited, in writing this chapter, from reading Martin C. Dillon, Merleau-Ponty's Ontology (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2nd edition, 1997), continue

Gary Brent Madison, The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1981), and Samuel Mallin, Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979).