Investigations Into the Literary Use of Language

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) is the author of Adventures of the Dialectic, Child Psychology and Pedagogy, Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language, In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays, Institution and Passivity, Nature, The Primacy of Perception, The Prose of the World, Sense and Non Sense, The Sensible World and the World of Expression, Signs, and The Visible and the Invisible, all published by Northwestern University Press.Bryan Smyth is an instructional assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Mississippi. He is the translator of Merleau-Ponty's The Sensible World and the World of Expression: Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1953 (Northwestern University Press).

• Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction Note on the Translation Typographical Information Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1953 Table of Contents of the Preparatory Lecture Notes Draft of the Course Summary Preparatory Lecture Notes Appendix: "Sartre – Parain," Reading Notes List of Reading Notes Translator's Notes Bibliography Index

"Investigations into the Literary Use of Language is a work of crucial importance for English scholarship on Merleau-Ponty, offering key insights into his thought in the making. The translation is first-rate as is the introduction and scholarly apparatus, which in some ways provides better support for the reader than the original French edition." —David Morris, Concordia University"In these extraordinary lecture notes, Merleau-Ponty deepens our understanding of the relationship between self and world, extending his previous discussions of art to literature. This text will reposition the way we understand Merleau-Ponty's thinking." —Helen Fielding, Western University