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Ronald Bruzina - Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:2 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.2 339-340 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Ronald Bruzina University of Kentucky Jack Reynolds. Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 233. Cloth, $49.95. This is an impressively intelligent, subtle, and knowledgeable interpretive study jointly of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jacques Derrida in the integrality of the work of each. One can say 'jointly' because, rather than just a comparison, Reynolds' study finds in the work of each thinker resources of analysis, focus, and critical thrust that serve to help set ways in which to question and clarify the thought of the other..