1574 Pages
by Routledge

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has been hailed by many as the greatest French thinker of the twentieth century. As one of the founding members of the existentialist movement in the 1940s, he played a key role in introducing the work of Husserl and Heidegger into French thought and collaborated with Jean-Paul Sartre in the founding of Les Temps Modernes . His later work laid the foundation for... Read more

Volume I  Part I: Critical Responses and Interpretations by Merleau-Ponty’s Contemporaries  Part II: Merleau-Ponty’s Relation to the Phenomenological Tradition  Volume II  Part III: Perception and Ontology  Part IV: Expression, Art, and Language  Volume III  Part V: Ethics and Politics  Part VI: Merleau-Ponty’s Relation to Feminist Philosophy  Volume IV  Part VII: Nature and the Environment  Part VIII: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Child Development  Part IX: Embodiment and Cognition

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Edited by Ted Toadvine.