The Visible and the Invisible in the Interplay between Philosophy, Literature and Reality

Merleau-Ponty's categories of the visible and the invisible are investigated in this collection of literary and philosophical essays. The studies range from the "hidden spheres of reality" to the play of the visible and the invisible left as traces in works of human genius; the origins of intellect and language; the real and the imaginary in literature, and the "hidden realities" in the philosophy of the everyday world. These literary and philosophical probings collectively reveal the role of this disjoined/conjoined pairing in the ontopoietic establishment of reality - in the manifestation of the logos of life. Together they bring to light the hidden play of the visible and the invisible in the emergence of our vital, societal, intimate, intellectual, and creative involvements.