Duane Davis

Dr. DUANE H. DAVIS is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He was Distinguished Scholar in Residence in Curitiba, Brazil in 2011, and the Ruth and Leon Feldman Research Scholar in 2013-14. He served as Assistant Director of the annual meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle in 1990, and Director in 2001 and 2010, and, with Ivan Kolev, co-directed a conference commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Merleau-Ponty’s birth in Sophia, Bulgaria in 2008.  He has published numerous articles in recent French thought, is co-editor (with William Hamrick) of Merleau-Ponty and the Art of Perception (SUNY Press, 2016) and is editor of Merleau-Ponty's Later Works and Their Practical Implications: The Dehiscence of Responsibility (Humanity Books, 2001).  He is currently working on two book projects: Reversibilities of the Flesh (exploring the provenance, promise, and peril of Merleau-Ponty's notion of reversibility); and Repairing the Flesh of the World (exploring Achille Mbembe's political appropriation of Merleau-Ponty's ontology).