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• Aquatic Ontology

  The central thesis of Knight's monograph: Merleau-Ponty's late ontology is best understood as a water cosmogony. Being does not emerge through the parting of earth and sky (Heidegger) or the oppressive plenitude of Night (Levinas), but thr…

• Perceptual Cosmogony

  Being is perceptual "all the way down." Merleau-Ponty's thesis that nature is "the primordial, the non-constructed, the non-instituted," and that every account of the origin of being is necessarily thought in perceptual terms. "If there is…

• Timaeus Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE — one of the stylometrically secure "late" dialogues (Cooper, Intro §II) — (trans. Donald J. Zeyl, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue