Spirit of the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and Alice Neel

Laura Nelson
9 min readJun 25, 2021
(Wikimedia Commons: Portrait of Alice Neel by©Lynn_Gilbert_1976)

(Alice Neel: People Come First, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through August 1, 2021)

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §25

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Does Dasein have a body?

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Laura Nelson

Writer, philosopher, information technologist,guitarist, neurotic, polite radical, avid and indiscriminate reader, Episcopalian, trans woman.