M.C. DILLON was Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. His publicaions include Merleau-Ponty Vivant, Semiological Reductionism: A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Postmodern Thought, Écart and Différance: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Seeing and Writing, and mroe than fifty journal raticles, many of which are devoted to Merleau-Ponty scholarship.