Last week I introduced a series on teaching phenomenology with a philosopher. I raised a few questions and considered some context, sketching out a really rough, idiosyncratic, and speculative intellectual history of Merleau-Ponty and the body in an American context. (To my knowledge, no one has yet done a “Merleau-Ponty in America” book. I really don’t know that we need one. Thanks to Paul Kern for pointing out that he shows up Sarah Bakewell’s Existentialist Cafe.)Anyhow, I have three essential concerns in this series, and the plan is to connect them. I mean to describe a little of what Maurice Read more