MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY (1908 - 1961)

ASSOCIATIONS

• International Merleau-Ponty Circle

• Merleau-Ponty Circle of Japan

CONFERENCES

• The Experience and Expression of Space, 34th Annual Conference, International Merleau-Ponty Circle, School of Architecture, Mississippi State University, October 1-3, 2009
• International Congress of Merleau-Ponty Circle Japan, Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro Campus, Tokyo, Japan, November 22-23, 2008
• Coloquio Internacional Merleau-Ponty 1908-2008, Universidad de Zaragoza, October 22-24, 2008
• Merleau-Ponty: a Phenomenology of Life, Department of Philosophy, University of Craiova, Romania, October 3
• Corporeity and Affectivity: in Celebration of Merleau-Ponty's 100th Birthday, Charles University, Prague, September 28-October 2, 2008
• Merleau-Ponty: Penser sans Dualismes Aujourd'hui, Milan and Pavia, Italy, September 25-27, 2008

• Time, Memory and the Self: Remembering Merleau-Ponty at 100, 33rd Annual Meeting, International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Ryerson University, September 18-20, 2008

• Merleau-Ponty Viviente, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Facultad de Filosofía 'Samuel Ramos,' Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México, September 3-6, 2008

• L’Espace et le temps chez Merleau-Ponty, Archives Husserl de Paris (CNRS), l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, June 5-8, 2008

• 100 Years of Merleau-Ponty: a Centenary Conference, Sofia University, Bulgaria, March 14-16, 2008

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, March 6-7

• Être à la vérité: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1908-2008, Basel University, March 11-15, 2008

• Passivity, 32nd Annual Meeting, International Merleau-Ponty Circle, University of Memphis, September 27-29, 2007

• Relire Merleau-Ponty a la Lumiere des Inedits, Ecole Normale Superieur, May 5, 2007

• La Phénomenologie de la perception: soixante ans après, Collège de France, Juin 17-18, 2005

• Expression, Language, Art, Annual Conference, Muhlenberg College, September 30-October 2, 2004

• Merleau Ponty and the Philosophy of Nature, Centre for Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, May 30, 2003

COURSES

• University of California, Berkeley: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (Dreyfus)
• East Carolina University: Existentialism and Phenomenology (Wisnewski)
• Grand Valley State University: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• University of London, UCL: Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty (Gardner)
• University of Oregon:
  • Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (Toadvine)
  • Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature (Toadvine)

JOURNALS

• Chiasmi: Pubblication trilingue autour de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty (Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Merleau-Ponty Reader.  Ed. Ted Toadvine and Leonard Lawlor.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2007.

  • Basic Writings.  Ed. Thomas Baldwin.  London: Routledge, 2003.

  • Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting.  Ed. G. A. Johnson and M. B. Smith.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1993.

  • Texts and Dialogues on Philosophy, Politics, Culture.  Ed. Hugh J. Silverman and James Barry, Jr.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1991.

  • Phenomenology, Language and Sociology: Selected Essays.  London: Heinemann, 1974.

  • Essential Writings.  Ed. Alden L. Fisher.  New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969.

  • Résumés de cours, Collège de France 1952-1960.  Paris: Gallimard, 1968.

    • Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France, 1952-1960.  Trans. John O’Neill.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1970.

  • The Primacy of Perception, and Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics.  Ed. James M. Edie.  Trans. Colin Smith.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1964.

  • Éloge de la Philosophie, et autres essais.  Paris: Gallimard, 1960.

    • In Praise of Philosophy, and Other Essays.  Trans. John Wild and James M. Edie.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1963.  

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Nature: Course Notes from the College de France.  Trans.  Robert Vallier.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2003.

  • Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology.  Ed. Leonard Lawlor and Bettino Bergo.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2001.

  • Approches phénoménologiques.  Paris: Hachette, 1981.  

  • Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language.  Trans. Hugh J Silverman.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1973.

  • Existence et dialectique.  Paris: PUF, 1971.

  • La Prose du monde.  Ed. Claude Lefort.  Paris: Gallimard, 1969. 

    • The Prose of the World.  Trans. John O’Neill.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1973.

  • "La Conscience et l'acquisition du language."  Bulletin de Psychologie 236 28: 3-6 (1964): .

    • Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language.  Trans. Hugh Silverman.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1973.

  • L’Oeil et l’esprit.  Paris: Gallimard, 1964.

    • "Eye and Mind." 

      • Rev. trans. Michael Smith.  Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader.  1993.  121-149.

      • Trans. Carleton Dallery.  The Primacy of Perception.  Ed. James Edie.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1964.  159-190. 

  • Le Visible et l’invisible; suivi de notes de travail.  Ed. Claude Lefort.  Paris: Gallimard, 1964. 

    • The Visible and the Invisible, followed by Working Notes.  Trans. Alphonso Lingis.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1968.

  • Signes.  Paris: Gallimard, 1960. 

    • Signs.  Trans. Richard C. McCleary.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1964.

  • Les Sciences de l’homme et la phénoménologie.  Paris: Centre de Documentation Universitaire, 1958.

    • "Phenomenology and the Sciences of Man."  Trans. John Wild.  The Primacy of Perception.  Ed. James Edie.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1964.  43-95.

  • 1956-1960.

    • Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1956-1960.  Ed. Dominique Seglard.  Trans. Robert Vallier.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2003.

  • Les Philosophes célèbres.  Paris: Maxenod, 1956.  

  • Les Aventures de la dialectique.  Paris: Gallimard, 1955. 

    • Adventures of the Dialectic.  Trans Joseph Bien.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1973.

  • Éloge de la Philosophie, Lecon inaugurale faite au Collége de France, Le jeudi 15 janvier 1953.  Paris: Gallimard, 1953.

    • "In Praise of Philosophy."  In Praise of Philosophy.  Trans John Wild and James M. Edie.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1963.  

  • Les Relations avec autrui chez l’enfant.  Paris: Centre de Documentation Universitaire, 1951.  Rpt. 1975.

    • "The Child’s Relations with Others."  Trans. William Cobb.  The Primacy of Perception.  Ed. James Edie.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1964.  96-155.

  • 1948.

    • The World of Perception.  Trans. Oliver Davis.  London: Routledge, 2004.

  • Sens et non-sens.  Paris: Nagel, 1948. 

    • Sense and Non-Sense.  Trans. Herbert L. Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1964.

  • 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, 1969.

  • Phénoménologie de la perception.  Paris: Gallimard, 1945. 

    • Phenomenology of Perception.  Trans. Colin Smith.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.

  • La Structure du comportement.  Paris: PUF, 1942. 

    • The Structure of Behaviour.  Trans. Alden L. Fischer.  Boston: Beacon, 1963.  Rpt. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1983.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • The Phenomenology of Perception (1945):

    • MediaFire Version

  • The Structure of Behaviour (1942):

    • Marxists.Org Version

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Baldwin, Thomas, ed.  Reading Merleau-Ponty: On Phenomenology of Perception.  London: Routledge, 2007.
  • Busch, Thomas, and Shaun Gallagher, eds.  Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
  • Carman, Taylor, and Mark B. Hansen, eds.  Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
  • Cataldi, Suzanne L., and William S. Hamrick, eds.  Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy: Dwelling on the Landscapes of Thought.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.
  • Dillon, M. C., ed.  Merleau-Ponty Vivant.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.
  • Dillon, M. C., ed.  Écart and Différance: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Seeing and Writing.  Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1997.
  • Diprose, Rosalyn, and Jack Reynolds, eds.  Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts.  Chesham: Acumen, 2008.
  • Evans, F., and Leonard Lawlor, eds.  Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.
  • Flynn, Bernard, and Wayne Froman, eds.  Merleau-Ponty and the Possibility of Philosophy.  2004.
  • Haas, Lawrence, and Dorothea Olkowski, eds.  Rereading Merleau-Ponty: Essays Beyond the Continental-Analytic Divide.  Amherst, NY: Humanity, 2000.
  • Hiltmann, Gabrielle, ed.  Maurice Merleau-Ponty: 1908 – 2008.  Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39.1 (2008).
  • Hoeller, Keith, ed.  Merleau-Ponty and Psychology.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1993.
  • Johnson, Galen A., and Michael B. Smith, eds.  Ontology and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.
  • Johnson, Galen A., and Michael B. Smith, eds.  An Existentialist Aesthetic: the Theories of Sarte and Merleau-Ponty.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1962.
  • Olkowski, Dorothea, and Lawrence Hass, eds.  Re-Reading Merleau-Ponty: Essays Beyond the Continental-Analytic Divide. 
  • Olkowski, Dorothea, and Gail Weiss, eds.  Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2006.
  • Olkowski, Dorothea, and James Morley, eds.  Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.
  • Sallis, John, ed.  Merleau-Ponty: Perception, Structure, Language.  Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1981.
  • Silverman, Hugh J., ed.  Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Merleau-Ponty.  London: Routledge, 1988.

  • Steward, Jon, ed.  The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1998.

  • Toadvine, Ted, ed.  Merleau-Ponty: Critical Assessments.  4 Vols.  London: Routledge, 2006.

  • Toadvine, Ted, and Lester Embree, eds.  Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002.

  • Weiss, Gail, ed.  Intertwinings: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2008.

• Selected Individual Works:
  • Abram, D.  "Merleau-Ponty and the Voice of the Earth."  Environmental Ethics 10.2 (1988): 101-20.
  • Bannan, John F.  The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.  New York: Harcourt, Brace &World, 1967.
  • Barbaras, Renaud.  The Being of the Phenomenon: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology.  Trans. Ted Toadvine and Leonard Lawlor.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004.
  • Barral, M.  Merleau-Ponty: the Role of the Body-Subject in Interpersonal Relations.  Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1965.
  • Barrett, Cyril.  "Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Perception."  Contemporary French Philosophy.  Ed. A. Phillips Griffiths.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.  123-140.
  • Besmer, Karl.  Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology: the Problem of Ideal Objects.  London: Continuum, 2007.
  • Carbone, Mauro.  The Thinking of the Sensible: Merleau-Ponty's A-Philosophy.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2004.
  • Carman, Taylor.  Merleau-Ponty.  London: Routledge, 2008.
  • Crossley, N.  The Politics of Subjectivity: Between Foucault and Merleau-Ponty.  Aldershot: Avebury Series in Philosophy, 1994.
  • Cullen, Bernard.  "Philosophy of Existence 3: Merleau-Ponty."  Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy.  Vol. 8 of The Routledge History of Philosophy.  Ed. Richard Kearney.  London: Routledge, 1994.  105-130.
  • Descombes, Vincent.  "The Human Origin of Truth (Merleau-Ponty)."  Trans. L. Scott-Fox and J. M. Harding.  Modern French Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1980.  55-74.
  • Dillon, M. C.  Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988; 1997.
  • Elliott, Gregory.  "Further Adventures of the Dialectic: Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Althusser."  Contemporary French Philosophy.  Ed. A. Phillips Griffiths.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.  195-214.

  • Gutting, Gary.  "Merleau-Ponty."  French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century.  Cambridge: CUP, 2001.  181-212.

  • Hass, Lawrence.  Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2008.

  • Jay, Martin.  "Phenomenological Marxism: the Ambiguities of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Holism."  Marxism and Totality: the Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermas.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.  361-384.

  • Johnson, Galen A.  "At the Limits of Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty."  Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendenning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  307-322.
  • Kearney, Richard.  "Maurice Merleau-Ponty."  Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.  73-90.
  • Kelly, Sean D.  "Seeing Things in Merleau-Ponty."  Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty.  Ed. Taylor Carman and Mark B. Hansen. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
  • Kelly, Sean D.  "Merleau-Ponty on the Body."  Ratio (new series) 15.4 (2002): 376-391.
  • Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael.  Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2008.
  • Kwant, Remy C.  From Phenomenology to Metaphysics: An Inquiry into the Last Period of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophical Life.  Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1966.
  • Kwant, Remy C.  The Phenomenological Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.  Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1963.
  • Langan, Thomas.  Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Reason.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1966.
  • Langer, Monika.  Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: a Guide and Commentary.  London: Macmillan, 1989.
  • Lanigan, Richard L.  Speaking and Semiology: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenological Theory of Existential Communication.  The Hague: Mouton, 1972.
  • Low, Douglas Beck.  The Existential Dialectic of Marx and Merleau-Ponty.  New York: Peter Lang, 1987.

  • MacAnn, Christopher.  "Maurice Merleau-Ponty."  Four Phenomenological Philosophers: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty.  London: Routledge, 1993.  159-201.

  • Madison, Gary Brent.  The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty.  Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 1981.
  • Mallin, Samuel B.  Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1979.

  • Matthews, Eric.  "Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception."  Central Works of Philosophy.  Ed. John Shand.  Vol. 4.  Chesham: Acumen, 2006.

  • Matthews, Eric.  Merleau-Ponty: a Guide for the Perplexed.  London: Continuum, 2006.

  • Matthews, Eric.  "Maurice Merleau-Ponty."  Companion to Modern French Thought.  London: Routledge, 2004.

  • Matthews, Eric.  The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.  Chesham: Acumen, 2002.

  • Matthews, Eric.  "Temporality, Subjectivity and History in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology."  Philosophical Inquiry 21 (1999): .

  • Matthews, Eric.  "Phenomenology and Existentialism 2: Merleau-Ponty."  Twentieth Century French Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.  85-107.

  • Moran, Dermot.  "Maurice Merleau-Ponty: the Phenomenology of Perception."  Introduction to Phenomenology.  London: Routledge, 2000.  391-434.

  • Muldoon, Mark S.  Trick of Time: Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur in Search of Time, Self and Meaning.  Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne UP, 2006.

  • Murray, Stuart J.  "Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 - 1961)."  Twentieth-Century European Cultural Theorists.  2nd Series.  Vol. 296 of Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Ed. Paul Hansom.  Detroit: Gale, 2004.  304-313.
  • O’Neill, John.  Perception, Expression and History: the Social Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1970.
  • Priest, Stephen.  Merleau-Ponty.  London: Routledge, 1998.
  • Rabil, Albert, Jr.  Merleau-Ponty: Existentialist of the Social World.  New York: Columbia UP, 1967.
  • Reynolds, Jack.  Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity.  Athens: Ohio UP, 2004.
  • Schmidt, James.  Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism.  New York: St Martin’s Press, 1985.

  • Spiegelberg, Herbert.  "The Phenomenogical Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)."  The Phenomenological Movement: a Historical Introduction.  2 Vols.  The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960. 3rd Rev. Ed. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1994.  537-584.

  • Toadvine, Ted.  Merleau-Ponty.  London: Routledge, 2006.
  • Waldenfels, Bernhard.  "Merleau-Ponty."  A Companion to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Critchley and William R. Schroeder.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  281-291.
  • Watkin, Christopher.  Phenomenology or Deconstruction?  The Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-Luc Nancy.  New York: Columbia UP, 2009.
  • Watson, Stephen H.  In the Shadow of Phenomenology: Writings after Merleau-Ponty I.  London: Continuum, 2009.
  • Welshon, Rex.  The Philosophy of Nietzsche.  Chesham: Acumen, 2004.
  • Whiteside, K. H.  Merleau-Ponty and the Foundations of a Existential Politics.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988.

On-Line:

• Albano, Peter J.: Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception and the Philosophy of Education Philosophy of Education(1998): .

• Cesario, Marco: The Primacy of Perception in the Era of Communication Reset DOC September 8, 2008

• Dreyfus, Hubert L.: The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy 4 (1996): .

• European Graduate School: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• Flynn, Bernard: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Forth, Michael: Christian Reflections on the Phenomenological Epistemology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• HyperJeff: English Translations of Merleau-Ponty's Works

• Kelly, Sean D.: Seeing Things in Merleau-Ponty

• McClamrock, Ron: Notes on the Introduction to The Phenomenology of Perception

• Mythos and Logos: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• O'Loughlin, Marjorie: Intelligent Bodies and Ecological Subjectivities: Merleau-Ponty’s Corrective to Postmodernism’s 'Subjects' of Education Philosophy of Education (1995)

• Pak, Yoon, and Ellen Timothy: Seeing as Perceiving? The Danger and the Possibility in
  Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Ontology Philosophy of Education (1998)

• Paterson, Mark: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• Popen, Shari: Merleau-Ponty Confronts Postmodernism: a Reply to O'Loughlin Philosophy of Education (1995)

• Reynolds, Jack: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Scott, Alex: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception

• Sullivan, Shannon: Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception Hypatia 12.1 ()

• Toadvine, Ted: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Selected Bibliography

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• Wyatt, Christopher Scott: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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• Hartman, Gwen: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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