Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Starting With Merleau-Ponty -- i.Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy: Husserl and Heidegger -- ii.Merleau-Ponty's `Reconciling Project' -- iii.Merleau-Ponty's Distinctive Contributions: First Glimpses -- iv.Coda: What Phenomenology is Not -- ch. 2 `Intellectual Prejudices' In Analyses Of Perception -- i.Gestalt Qualities -- ii.The Empiricist Picture -- iii.Intellectualist Variants on the Empiricist Picture -- iv.`The Phenomenal Field' -- v.Coda: Merleau-Ponty and Science -- ch. 3 The Body -- i.`Special Object' vs. Body Schema -- ii.A Better Account: Cartesian Physiology vs. Embodied Being-in-the-World -- iii.A Better Vocabulary: `Motor Intentionality' and the `Power of Projection' -- iv.Using the Abnormal I: `Decoding' vs. `Physiognomy' -- v.Using the Abnormal II: Habits, Skills and Bodily Knowledge -- vi.Coda: Normal and Abnormal -- ch. 4 The Body And The Perceived World -- i.Some Background and the Example of Depth --

Contents note continued: ii.The Constancies: The Example of Colour -- iii.The Unity of the Senses and Intersensory Unity -- iv.Orientation -- v.Coda: Concrete Essences and the Life-World a Priori -- ch. 5 Others -- i.The Problem of Others -- ii.Tacit Cogito and `Second Cogito' -- iii.The Interworld -- iv.Bodily Reciprocity -- v.Coda: Gestures and Speech -- ch. 6 Merleau-Ponty Vivant -- i.Illness -- ii.Women -- iii.Culture -- iv.Animals -- v.Coda: Intellectual Prejudices.