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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…

• Flesh as Element

  Merleau-Ponty's central late ontological concept: the flesh (chair) is not matter, not mind, not substance, but an "element" in the Presocratic sense — water, earth, fire, air. The canonical definition is in V&I Ch 4, p. 139-140: "What we…

• Khôra

  The third kind (triton genos) introduced in Plato's Timaeus (48e–53c) beside being (Form) and becoming (copy): the receptacle "in which" all becoming appears — named by an irreducible cluster of metaphors (receptacle hypodochē, "wetnurse"…

• 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