The articles in this volume reflect upon the intersections of corporeity and affectivity in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. They illuminate the meaning of his phenomenology regarding corporeity and affectivity from various phenomenological perspectives. Corporeity and Affectivity explores his invaluable contribution in interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary respect, including the humanities, the arts and the sciences. Contributors include: Alexei Chernyakov (+), Jagna Brudzińska, Universitat Koln, IFiS PAN Warschau, Nicola Zippel, Sapienza University of Rome,...

The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental waysfrom organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prostheticsis something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate...