Chiasmi International N. 9

On the one hand we have a text from the famous architecte Steven Holl, in which he explains how Merleau-Ponty's idea of the chiasm inspired his design for the new museum in Helsinki, the Kiasma Museum. On the other hand, we have the first posthumous text by the American Merleau-Ponty scholar M. C. Dillon. In this text, Dillon attempts to integrate a thought of death into a thought of life and therefore in his own, very original way he challenges Merleau-Ponty. What unites these two texts is the idea of institution. In fact all persisting structures are institued, structures as diverse as science, ideology, music, and literature, in a word, symbols. Across this volume, we see once again that the inexhaustible richness of Merleau-Ponty's thought generates constantly new reflections. Essays by Leonard Lawlor, Steven Holl, Etienne Bimbenet, Renato Boccali, Darian Meacham, Anna-Pia Papageorgiou, Bryan E. Bannon, Graciela Ralon de Walton, Bryan Smyth, Caterina Rea, Antonino Firenze, Maurizio Guercini, John Russon, Hellen A. Fielding, Donald A. Landes, Thomas Campaner, Simone Frangi, Marco della Greca, Stefan Kristensen, Paolo Gambazzi, Esteban A, Garcia, Guillaume Carron, Lawrence Hass, Patrick Burke, Lucia Angelino.