Merleau-Ponty's unfinished posthumous work developing the concept of the flesh (la chair) — the sensing-sensed chiasm that is neither subject nor object but the medium of all experience.
The flesh is not matter but reversibility — the touching hand can be touched; this chiasmic structure is not a property of consciousness but of being itself. Provides an ontological foundation for phenomenology beyond the subject-object split.
No conceptual lineage found.
No recorded contemporaries.
No recorded minds influenced.
No conceptual posterity found.
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