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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.

Table of Contents
  • 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 An Unpublished Text by Maurice Merleau-Ponty: A Prospectus of his Work (1952), from Parcours Deux, 1951-1961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).

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      Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres
      Publication Date: 10/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810120433, 978-0810120433
      ISBN10: 0810120437
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      • 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).

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