...The flesh is for itself the exemplar sensible. It is so because its manner of being is elemental: 21 "to designate it we should need the old term 'element' ... in the sense of a general thing, midway between the spatio-temporal individual and the idea, a sort of incarnate...

...ontologically prior to body as a physical thing as well as to mind construed as ideality. Thus, flesh is rather "a general thing midway between the spatiotemporal...individual and the idea, a sort of incarnate principle that bridges a style of being wherever there is a fragment of being."33 Merleau-Ponty writes: "It [flesh]...

...bypasses the mind-matter and subjectobject distinctions. Merleau-Ponty claims: To designate [this unity] we should need the old term "element" in the sense...water, air, earth and fire, that is, in the sense of & general thing midway between the spatio-temporal individual and the idea, a sort of incarnate principle...

...body as such is not the flesh, and the flesh of the body expresses the body as a reflexive generality, a "general thing midway between the spatio-temporal...style of being wherever there is a fragment of Being." 41 My body is to the greatest extent what everything is: "a dimensional this." 42 In focusing on sensation...

...Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty wrote that Flesh "is not matter, is not mind, is not substance. To designate it, we should need the old term 'element,'...it was used to speak of water, air, earth, and fire . . . a sort of incarnate principle that brings a style of being wherever there is a fragment of being"...

...the world, the subject in and as the world: "The flesh is not matter, is not mind, is not substance. To designate it, we should need the old term 'element'...and fire, that is, in the sense of a general thing. . . . The flesh is in this sense an 'element of Being'."" The elemental, in sum, provides Irigaray...

...developing a notion of the in-between as flesh, a living bond understood as element: To designate [flesh], we should need the old term "element," in the sense...style of being wherever there is a fragment of being." This brings us back to Heraclitus whose account of elemental transformation should not be seen as simply...

...body and world. According to Merleau-Ponty, "The flesh is not matter, is not mind, is not substance. To designate it, we should need the old term 'element'...sense it was used to speak of water, air, earth, and fire."33 Later he writes: "What we are calling flesh, this intensely worked over mass, has no name...

..."Elements" as the Elemental Powers of Being. Maurice Merleau-Ponty said that "To designate it [flesh, body] we should need the old term 'element,' in the sense...thing, midway between the spatiotemporal individual and idea, a sort of incarnate principle that brings a style of being ... the inauguration of the where...

...at the high moment of ontological insight late in his life, said: 305 To designate it [flesh, body] we should need the old term "element," in the sense...water, air, earth, and fire, that is, in the sense of general thing, midway between the spatiotemporal individual and idea, a sort of incarnate principle...