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Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961)

Author of Phenomenology of Perception

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Appointed Professor at the College de France in 1952, Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a highly esteemed professional philosopher because of his technical works in phenomenology and psychology. He was also an activist commentator on the significant cultural and political events of his time, as well as a show more collaborator with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in the founding and editing of Les Temps Modernes in Paris immediately after World War II. Besides being influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty assimilated the contributions of experimental philosophy and Gestalt psychology to focus on perception and behavior. His work "The Structure of Behavior," although centering on the body, presented an interpretation of the distinctions among the mental, the vital (biological), and the physical that ruled out the reductionist inclinations of behaviorism. With the appearance of his work on the phenomenology of perception in 1945, his position as a philosopher ranking beside Heidegger and Sartre was established. He unveiled a theory of human subjectivity similar to theirs but with greater technical precision. From the standpoint of an existentialist thinker whose conception of subjectivity stressed the primacy of freedom, he examined Marxism and the political factions and movements fostered in the name of Karl Marx. The resulting studies, always insightful and provocative, satisfied neither the right nor the left. In the foreword to the English translation of Merleau-Ponty's inaugural lecture at the College de France, In Praise of Philosophy, John Wild and James Edie praised him for having made "important contributions to the phenomenological investigation of human existence in the life-world and its distinctive structures. He was a revolutionary, and his philosophy, even more than that of his French contemporaries, was a philosophy of the evolving, becoming historical present." Merleau-Ponty views man as an essentially historical being and history as the dialectic of meaning and non-meaning which is working itself out through the complex, unpredictable interaction of men and the world. Nothing historical ever has just one meaning; meaning is ambiguous and is seen from an infinity of viewpoints. He has been called a philosopher of ambiguity, of contradiction, of dialectic. His search is the search for "meaning."' show less

Works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Phenomenology of Perception (1945) 1,566 copies
Sense and Nonsense (1964) 222 copies
The World of Perception (2002) 209 copies
The Eye and the Spirit (1964) 199 copies
Signs (1960) 195 copies
Structure of Behavior (1942) 176 copies
The Prose of the World (1969) 129 copies
Adventures of the Dialectic (1955) 120 copies
In Praise of Philosophy (1953) 57 copies
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings (2002) — Author — 52 copies
The Merleau-Ponty Reader (2003) — Author — 26 copies
James Turrell: Eclipse (1999) 24 copies
Essays 8 copies
Oeuvres (2010) 8 copies
Filosofisia kirjoituksia (2012) 6 copies
Humanismus und Terror I (1984) 5 copies
Humanismus und Terror 2 (1966) 4 copies
Cézannes tvivl (2012) 3 copies
Parcours: 1951-1961 (2001) 3 copies
Conversas 1949 2 copies
Signs / 2 copies
Oog en geest (2012) 2 copies
Vorlesungen I (1973) 2 copies
La Pensée confisquée (1997) 1 copy
La Natura 1 copy
Chvála moudrosti (1994) 1 copy
Palestras (2003) 1 copy

Associated Works

Essays, Part 3/3 (1588) — Preface, some editions — 338 copies
The Phenomenology Reader (2002) — Contributor — 96 copies
Philosophical Issues: A Contemporary Introduction (1972) — Contributor — 17 copies

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luvucenanzo06 | Sep 8, 2023 |
«Mëdyshjet e Cézanne-it», e fenomenologut Maurice Merleau-Ponty, është studimi i parë dhe ndoshta më i thellë rreth veprës së këtij gjigandi të artit modern, piktorit të piktorëve, “nënës mburojë të fëmijëve të saj”, siç do të shprehej Picasso. Kjo ese do të bëhej veçanërisht një pikë qëndrore referimi për studiuesit dhe historianët e artit, duke u dhënë atyre referenca tepër thelbësore në trajtimin e fenomenit Cézanne, si cilësia primordiale e vizionit të tij, këmbëngulja për të arritur në thelbin e së vërtetës nëpërmjet përvojës perceptuese, si dhe thyerja e koncepteve akademike, sidomos ato të perspektivës tradicionale.
“Mëdyshjet e Cezanne”, shtjellohet brenda logjikës intelektuale të veprës tjetër të Merleau-Ponty-së “Fenomenologjia e Perceptimit”, në të cilën ka shumë referenca të shkurtra për Cézanne-in. Por në këtë ese Merleau-Ponty përshkruan më në detaje mënyrën në të cilën arti i Cézanne duket se i shërben autorit për të dëshmuar eksperiencat e tij vizuale. Merleau-Ponty besonte fort se sikundër Cézanne dhe ai vetë qenë angazhuar në të njëjtin projekt. Për raport, ai nënvizon aty se atë që fenomenologjia s’e kish arritur dot nëpërmjet gjuhës filozofike, Cézanne e kishte realizuar nëpërmjet gjuhës së ngjyrave.
“Fenomenologjia është studimi i esencave” thekson Merleau-Ponty, “dhe sipas saj, të gjitha problemet që përbëjnë gjetjen e përkufizimeve të esencave: thelbin e perceptimit ose thelbin e ndërgjegjes”
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BibliotekaFeniks | Jan 12, 2023 |
Umas palestras originalmente para o meio do rádio, muito simples, concisas e claras, mas também rasas, talvez direcionadas a um público muito distante, acostumado com generalizações grosseiras como "a ciência é tudo", "as coisas são fixas", "a percepção leva à ilusão", "temos de ter certeza sobre as coisas" etc, que então precisam ser combatidas com um não é assim, mas que também não é elaborado suficientemente, e dá suspeitas de exageros contrários.
 
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henrique_iwao | 3 other reviews | Aug 30, 2022 |
german idealism but if it was incredibly boring
 
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