Existential Phenomenology of Law: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The following pages attempt to develop the main outlines of an existential phenomenology of law within the context of Maurice Merleau-Ponty''s phe­ nomenology of the social world. In so doing, the essay addresses the rather narrow scholarly question, If Merleau-Ponty had written a phenomenology of law, what would it have looked like? But this scholarly enterprise, although impeccable in itself, is...