Khôra: The Flesh of the World
Chiasmus: A Trope of Reversability - Envelopment Caress 

First part

Suggested Readings

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “The Intertwining – The Chiasm,” The Visible and Invisible, ed. by Claude Lefort, trans. Alphonso Lingis. Northwestern University, 1968, pp. 130-155; Mauro Carbone, “The Light of the Flesh: Anti-Platonistic Instances and Neoplatonic Traces in the Later Merleau-Ponty’s Thinking,” The Flesh of Images. Merleau-Ponty Between Painting and Cinema, State of University New York, 2015, pp. 63-74; 108-110; Richard Kearney, “In the Flesh: Sacramental Imagination” (A Phenomenology of the Flesh. Merleau-Ponty’s Sacramental Vision; Kristeva and The Aesthetics of Sensation), Anatheism, (Returning to God After God), Columbia University Press, 2010, pp. 85-100 and 204-211.