The Merleau-Ponty Reader

Author:: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Format:: Softcover

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Offering a comprehensive view of Maurice Merleau Ponty's (1908-1961) work, this selection collects the foundational essays necessary for understanding the core of this critical twentieth-century philosopher's thought.

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Editor:: Ted Toadvine
Publisher:: Northwestern University Press,U.S.
ISBN:: 9780810120433
Publication date:: October 2007
Length:: 228mm
Width:: 201mm
Thickness:: 28mm
Weight:: 708g
Pages:: 490
Readership:: Advanced secondary

Sources of the Texts
Editors's Introduction
I. THE PRE-SORBONNE PERIOD (PRECEDING 1949)
1. The Relations of the Soul & the Body & the Problem of Perceptual Consciousness, from The Structure of Behavior (1942)
2. The War Has Taken Place (1945), from Sense and Non-Sense
3. What is Phenomenology? Preface to the Phenomenology of Perception (1945)
4. Cezanne's Doubt (1945), from Sense and Non-Sense
5. The Contemporary Philosophical Movement (1945), from Parcours, 1935-1951
6. The Primacy of Perception and its Philosophical Consequences (1946), from the Bulletin de la societe francaise de philosophie
7. Reality and its Shadow (1948), from Parcours, 1935-1951
II. THE SORBONNE PERIOD (1949-1952)
8. A Note on Machiavelli (1949), from Signs
9. The Adversary is Complicit (1950), from Parcours, 1935-1951
10. The Child's Relations with Others (1951), extract, course at the Sorbonne
11. Human Engineering: The New "Human" Techniques of American Big Business (1951), from Parcours, 1935-1951
12. Man and Adversity, followed by discussion (1951), essay from Signs, discussion from Parcours Deux, 1951-1961
13. Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence (1952), from Signs
14. An Unpublished Text by Maurice Merleau-Ponty: A Prospectus of his Work (1952), from Parcours Deux, 1951-1961
III. THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE PERIOD (1952-1961)
15. Epilogue to Adventures of the Dialectic (1953-54)
16. Preface (1960) to Signs
17. Eye and Mind (1961)
18. Merleau-Ponty in Person (1958), from Parcours Deux, 1951-1961
19. The Intertwining - The Chiasm (1960-61), from The Visible and the Invisible
20. New Working Notes from the Period of The Visible and the Invisible (1955-61).