Introduction : The flesh and the thinking of the visual today -- Flesh : towards the history of a misunderstanding -- It takes a long time to become wild : Gauguin according to Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty according to Gauguin -- 'Making visible' : Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee -- The philosopher and the moviemaker : Merleau-Ponty and cinematic thinking -- The light of the flesh : anti-platonistic instances and neoplatonic traces in the later Merleau-Ponty's thinking -- The sensible ideas between life and philosophy.