Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the few major phenomenologists to engage extensively with empirical research in the sciences, and the only one to examine child psychology with rigor and in such depth. His writings have recently become increasingly influential, as the findings of psychology and cogni[...]

More than sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings to feminist theory. His exploration of the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits is key to modern phenomenological thinking. But there has been little agreement on how Merlea[...]

Merleau-Ponty was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French philosophy. He was responsible for bringing the phenomenological methods of the German philosophers - Husserl and Heidegger - to France and instigated a new wave of interest in this approach. His influence extended well beyond the bound[...]

'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science - and also the insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger.' - James Elkins Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of th[...]

Raymond Aron called Merleau-Ponty "the most influential French philosopher of his generation." First published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar wor[...]

The tools, concepts, and vocabulary of phenomenology are used in this book to explore language in a multitude of contexts.[...]

A glimpse into Maurice Merleau-Ponty's nuanced reading of Husserl and his effort to track the genesis of truth through the idealization of language. It combines Merleau-Ponty's notes on Husserl's "Origin of Geometry", his "Course Summary", related texts, and essays by the co-translators.[...]

Gjennom en rekke fenomenologiske analyser av patologiske forstyrrelser etc. nærmer Merleau-Ponty seg en ny innsikt i subjektets kroppslige væren og den legemligjorte bevissthet og erkjennelse. Boken utgjør den første delen av hans verk "Phenomenologie de la perception" (1945). Har litteraturlist[...]

Maurice Merleau-Ponty är 37 år gammal när han 1945 lägger fram sin avhandling Phénoménologie de la perception. Genom Sartre, som var en studiekamrat från tiden vid Ecole normale supérieure och som hade vistats i Tyskland 1934, kom Merleau-Ponty i kontakt med Husserls skrifter. Andra tänkare[...]