Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art and politics. He was on the editorial board of Les Temps Modernes, the leftist magazine created by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1945.

Literature

Books by Merleau-Ponty

• La Structure du comportement, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1942; 6th edition, 1967.
  • The Structure of Behavior, trans. Alden Fisher, Boston: Beacon Press, 1963; London: Methuen, 1965 (in English).
• Phénoménologie de la perception, Paris: Gallimard, 1945, 1976.
  • Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith, New York: Humanities Press, 1962; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962; translation revised by Forrest Williams, 1981; reprint, 2002 (in English).
• Fenomenologia da percepção, trans. Carlos Alberto Ribeiro de Moura, São Paulo, Martins Fontes Editora, 1994; 2nd edition, 1999 (in Portughese).
• Humanisme et terreur, essai sur le problème communiste, Paris: Gallimard, 1947.
  • Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist Problem, trans. John O’Neill, Boston: Beacon Press, 1969 (in English).
• Sens et non-sens, Paris: Nagel, 1948; reprint, Paris: Gallimard, 1996.
  • Sense and Non-Sense, trans. Herbert L. Dreyfus & Patricia Allen Dreyfus, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964 (in English).
• Les Relations avec autrui chez l’enfant, Paris: Centre de Documentation Universitaire, 1951; reprint, 1975.
  • "The Child’s Relations with Others", trans. William Cobb, in: The Primacy of Perception (1964), pp. 96-155 (in English).
• Les Aventures de la dialectique, Paris: Gallimard, 1955.
  • Adventures of the Dialectic, trans. Joseph Bien, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973; London: Heinemann, 1974 (in English).
• Le Visible et l’invisible, suivi de notes de travail, edited by Claude Lefort, Paris: Gallimard, 1964, 1979; reprint 2001.
  • The Visible and the Invisible, followed by Working Notes, trans. Alphonso Lingis, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968 (in English).
• La Prose du monde, Paris: Gallimard, 1969.
  • The Prose of the World, trans. John O’Neill, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973; London: Heinemann, 1974 (in English).

Books on Merleau-Ponty

• Taylor Carman, Mark B. N. Hansen, The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, Cambridge University Press, 200, ISBN: 0521007771.
• Brett Buchanan, Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkill, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze, State University of New York, 2008, ISBN: 0791476111, 079147612X.

Bibliography

• compiled by Ted Toadvine

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty
• http://www.iep.utm.edu/merleau/