Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The World of Perception - Timothy R. Quigley

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NotesFOREWORD1 Merleau-Ponty’s term throughout for these talks is causeries, which connotesa communication serious in subject-matter but less formal intone than a lecture. (Translator’s note)INTRODUCTION1 Phénoménologie de la perception (Paris: Gallimard, 1945); translated by ColinSmith as Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge, 1962). Page referencesare to the new 2002 edition of this English translation.2 Sartre’s account of his childhood is set out in his autobiographicalsketch Les Mots (Paris: Gallimard, 1964; trans. I. Clephane, Words,Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967). Camus tells his very different storyin his posthumously published incomplete novel Le Premier Homme(Paris: Gallimard, 1994; trans. D. Hapgood, The First Man, London:Penguin, 1996).3 Phenomenology of Perception p. 4034 La Structure du comportement (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,1942); translated by Alden Fisher as The Structure of Behavior (BostonMA: Beacon, 1963).115
5 I discuss it at greater length in my introduction to Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings (London: Routledge, 2003). For a more extendeddiscussion, see The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty by E. Matthews (Chesham:Acumen, 2002).6 See A. Cohen-Solal Sartre: A Life (London: Heinemann, 1987) pp. 164ff.7 L’Etre et le néant (Paris: Gallimard, 1943); translated by Hazel Barnes asBeing and Nothingness (London: Methuen, 1958).8 See especially the essay ‘The war has taken place’ (1945) in Sense andNon-Sense.9 Sartre’s long essay about Merleau-Ponty describes their collaborationand eventual parting – ‘Merleau-Ponty vivant’, Les Temps Modernes 17(1961) pp. 304–76; translated by B. Eisler as ‘Merleau-Ponty’ inSituations (New York: G. Braziller, 1965).10 Sens et non-sens (Paris: Nagel, 1948); translated by H. Dreyfus and P.Dreyfus as Sense and Non-Sense (Evanston, ILL: Northwestern UniversityPress, 1964).11 Les Aventures de la dialectique (Paris: Gallimard, 1955); translated by J.Bien as The Adventures of the Dialectic (Evanston, ILL: NorthwesternUniversity Press, 1973).12 Signes (Paris: Gallimard, 1960); translated by R. McCleary as Signs(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964).13 Le Visible et l’invisible (Paris: Gallimard 1964); translated by A. Lingis as TheVisible and the Invisible (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968).14 Phenomenology of Perception p. 373.15 Phenomenology of Perception p. 458.16 Phenomenology of Perception p. 35317 Phenomenology of Perception p. 239.18 Phenomenology of Perception p. 241; the reference here to a flaw in the greatdiamond is to a famous poem by Paul Valéry, Le Cimetière marin.19 Phenomenology of Perception p. xv.notes
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First published in French as Causer
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ForewordThe seven lectures collecte
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are preceded by a number. We have e
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draws and the anxieties which he ar
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shortly before the war. This second
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After his death Merleau-Ponty’s r
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empiricism is not of this kind. Thi
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The central theme of Merleau-Ponty
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acknowledgement of its special stat
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world of perception can be dismisse
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When Merleau-Ponty says that scienc
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Florentine Renaissance, or, in a Fr
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photograph in which the feet look a
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intrinsic properties which explain
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which our own life has been disturb
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only contingently connected to a ph
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imagining that our dependence upon
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Merleau-Ponty now extends this aest
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etter conception of reason (e.g. di
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The World of Perception
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The world of perception, or in othe
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explain the illusions of long- and
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provide all the answers at a time w
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exercise of a pure and unsituated i
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It has often been said that modern
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which effect certain changes in the
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along lines running from the painte
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LECTURE 3Exploring the World of Per
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worlds of sight, smell, touch and s
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touch. 2 To say that honey is visco
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