The Merleau-Ponty Reader
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The first reader to offer a comprehensive view of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s (1908-1961) work, this selection collects in one volume the foundational essays necessary for understanding the core of this critical twentieth-century philosopher’s thought.
Arranged chronologically, the essays are grouped in three sections corresponding to the major periods of Merleau-Ponty’s work: First, the years prior to his appointment to the Sorbonne in 1949, the early, existentialist period during which he wrote important works on the phenomenology of perception and the primacy of perception; second, the years of his work as professor of child psychology and pedagogy at the Sorbonne, a period especially concerned with language; and finally, his years as chair of modern philosophy at the Collège de France, a time devoted to the articulation of a new ontology and philosophy of nature. The editors, who provide an interpretive introduction, also include previously unpublished working notes found in Merleau-Ponty’s papers after his death. Translations of all selections have been updated and several appear here in English for the first time.
By contextualizing Merleau-Ponty’s writings on the philosophy of art and politics within the overall development of his thought, this volume allows readers to see both the breadth of his contribution to twentieth-century philosophy and the convergence of the various strands of his reflection.
LEONARD LAWLOR is Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis and the author of The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics (Continuum, 2003) and Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question (Indiana, 2003). He is also the editor and co-translator (with Bettina Bergo) of Merleau-Ponty’s Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology (Northwestern, 2001) and the co-translator (with Ted Toadvine) of Renaud Barbaras’s The Being of the Phenomenon (Indiana, 2004).
Editors’ Introduction
Part I. The Pre-Sorbonne Period (preceding 1949)
Chapter 1. The Relations of the Soul and the Body and the Problem of Perceptual Consciousness
Chapter 2. The War Has Taken Place
Chapter 3. What is Phenomenology?
Chapter 4. Cézanne's Doubt
Chapter 5. The Contemporary Philosophical Movement
Chapter 6. The Primacy of Perception and its Philosophical Consequences
Chapter 7. Reality and its Shadow
Part II. The Sorbonne Period (1949–1952)
Chapter 8. A Note on Machiavelli
Chapter 9. The Adversary is Complicit
Chapter 10. The Child’s Relations with Others
Chapter 11. Human Engineering: The New ‘Human’ Techniques of American Big Business
Chapter 13. Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence
Chapter 14. An Unpublished Text by Maurice Merleau-Ponty: A Prospectus of his Work
Part III. The Collège de France Period (1952–1961)
Chapter 15. Epilogue to Adventures of the Dialectic
Chapter 16. Preface to Signs
Chapter 17. Eye and Mind
Chapter 18. Merleau-Ponty in Person
Chapter 19. The Intertwining—The Chiasm
Chapter 20. New Working Notes from the Period of The Visible and the InvisibleBiography of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Notes
Chronological Bibliography of Merleau-Ponty's Works
Index
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