Merleau-Ponty Reader

Ted Toadvine is an assistant professor of philosophy and environmental studies at University of Oregon and the co-editor of Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl (Springer, 2002) and Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself (SUNY, 2003). He is also the co-translator (with Leonard Lawlor) of Renaud Barbaras’s The Being of the Phenomenon (Indiana, 2004).Leonard Lawlor is Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis and the author of The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics (Continuum, 2003) and Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question (Indiana, 2003). He is also the editor and co-translator (with Bettina Bergo) of Merleau-Ponty’s Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology (Northwestern, 2001) and the co-translator (with Ted Toadvine) of Renaud Barbaras’s Tthehe Being of  Phenomenon (Indiana, 2004).

• Sources of the TextsEditors's IntroductionI. The Pre-Sorbonne Period (Preceding 1949)1. The Relations of the Soul & the Body & the Problem of Perceptual Consciousness, from The Structure of Behavior (1942)2. The War Has Taken Place (1945), from Sense and Non-Sense3. What is Phenomenology? Preface to the Phenomenology of Perception (1945)4. Cezanne's Doubt (1945), from Sense and Non-Sense5. The Contemporary Philosophical Movement (1945), from Parcours, 1935-19516. The Primacy of Perception and its Philosophical Consequences (1946), from the Bulletin de la societe francaise de philosophie7. Reality and its Shadow (1948), from Parcours, 1935-1951II. The Sorbonne Period (1949-1952)8. A Note on Machiavelli (1949), from Signs9. The Adversary is Complicit (1950), from Parcours, 1935-195110. The Child's Relations with Others (1951), extract, course at the Sorbonne11. Human Engineering: The New ""Human"" Techniques of American Big Business (1951), from Parcours, 1935-195112. Man and Adversity, followed by discussion (1951), essay from Signs, discussion from Parcours Deux, 1951-196113. Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence (1952), from Signs14. An Unpublished Text by Maurice Merleau-Ponty: A Prospectus of his Work (1952), from Parcours Deux, 1951-1961III. The College De France Period (1952-1961)15. Epilogue to Adventures of the Dialectic (1953-54)16. Preface (1960) to Signs17. Eye and Mind (1961)18. Merleau-Ponty in Person (1958), from Parcours Deux, 1951-196119. The Intertwining - The Chiasm (1960-61), from The Visible and the Invisible20. New Working Notes from the Period of The Visible and the Invisible (1955-61).