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• Dimensional this (my body as bearer of dimensions)

  A V&I working-note coinage — left in English in MP's French original — for the structure by which the body, while singular and concrete (a this), is also a dimension: a level that organizes the perceptible field. The June 1960 working note…

• Enveloping-Enveloped

  A late-MP figure of mutual implication in which two terms each enclose-and-are-enclosed by the other, neither serving as outer container nor inner contained — a cross-vocabulary register that surfaces under several names: enveloping-envelo…

• Ereignis (Heidegger's advent of Being)

  Heidegger's late term — typically rendered "advent of Being" or "appropriating event" — for the non-causal event by which Being gives itself, ereignet sich, in a "vertical" history that does not unfold along the horizontal axis of cause an…

• Idea-as-dimension (the idea is the level)

  In The Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty deploys an unusual ontological identification: the Idea — the musical idea, the idea of light, the idea of a colour — is a level or dimension of the visible, not a content above or behind it.…

• Imaginary (Merleau-Ponty)

  MP's late account of the imaginary — distinct from any regional psychology of imagination — names a structural-ontological register in which the mode of being characteristic of imagination (ubiquity, hovering, inexhaustibility, presence-ab…

• Initiation (the opening of a dimension)

  In The Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty deploys the term initiation at one of the rare moments where he gives a definition outright: initiation names the operation by which a perceptible (or affective, or linguistic) level is estab…

• Merleau-Ponty: Institution-Ontology-Politics Ricardo Mendoza-Canales (ed.), 2026

  Author(s): Ricardo Mendoza-Canales (ed.) Year: 2026 Type: edited volume (12 chapters + Introduction; 3 thematic Parts)

• Mythical Time

  Merleau-Ponty's name for the past that has never been present — a temporal register beyond the chronological-presentist horizon, anchored in the April 1960 V&I working note "Indestructible Past" ("architectonic past… mythical time, time be…

• Narcissism (Merleau-Ponty's Two Senses)

  Merleau-Ponty's late-ontology redefinition of "narcissism" — not Freudian libidinal cathexis to the ego, but a structural-ontological name for vision's reflexivity, which operates in two senses, both running through the dehiscence of the f…

• Soil / Ground / Sol

  MP's late register of sol / Boden / ground names the carnal-geological structural a priori of the late ontology — a non-categorial, non-ideal ground-as-sense that MP develops out of his reading of Husserl's Umsturz-fragment (Husserl's 1934…

• Third Domain

  Merleau-Ponty's name (chiefly in the Possibility of Philosophy Course 2, line 2578 cardinal formulation) for the structural register that is neither subject nor object, neither presence nor absence, neither being nor nothing — what Saint A…

• Topology (Merleau-Ponty)

  MP's topologie de la chair / topologie de l'être names the spatial-relational structure of late-MP being and flesh, articulated in roughly 80 attestations between October 1959 and September 1960 (working notes, Être et Monde feuillets, L'Œ…

• Transcendental Geology

  Giovanni Fava's elevation of a single late working-note phrase from Merleau-Ponty into the central interpretive paradigm of late MP's philosophy of nature: a philosophy capable of linking history to its ontological belonging to the Earth,…

• Vertical Being

  Merleau-Ponty's name for the irrelative source of transcendence in his late ontology — the "from-above" (Hoheit) that is not a relativity of subject or object but their common source. The cardinal phrase is "All verticality comes from vert…

• Vortex / Tourbillon

  The vortex / tourbillon names a recurring spatializing-temporalizing rotational figure in late MP — the figure that distributes times and spaces without coinciding with any of them. MP uses tourbillon repeatedly in the V&I working notes an…

• Wesen (Verbal Sense, MP's Reading)

  In late Merleau-Ponty, Wesen is read verbally rather than substantively: not the whatness of a thing opposed to its thatness, but the active happening by which a thing is that thing — "the Wesen of the table is 'that which "tablefies" in i…