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“All consciousness is perceptual. . . . The perceived world is the always presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value and all existence.”
“[The phenomenologist returns] to the world which precedes [scientific description], [the world] of which science always speaks, and in relation to which every scientific characterization is an abstract and derivative sign language, as is geography to the countryside.”
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Phénoménologie de la perception. Paris: Gallimard, 1945. Translated by Colin Smith under the title Phenomenology of Perception (New York: Humanities Press, 1962; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962; translation revised by Forrest Williams, 1981; reprinted, 2002).
Humanisme et terreur, essai sur le problème communiste. Paris: Gallimard, 1947. Translated by John O’Neill under the title Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist Problem (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969).
Sens et non-sens. Paris: Nagel, 1948; reprinted, Paris: Gallimard, 1996. Translated by Herbert L Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus under the title Sense and Non-Sense (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964).
Les Relations avec autrui chez l’enfant. Paris: Centre de Documentation Universitaire, 1951; reprinted, 1975. Translated by William Cobb under the title “The Child’s Relations with Others,” in The Primacy of Perception (1964), 96-155.
Éloge de la Philosophie, Lecon inaugurale faite au Collége de France, Le jeudi 15 janvier 1953. Paris: Gallimard, 1953. Translated by John Wild and James M Edie under the title In Praise of Philosophy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1963).
Les Aventures de la dialectique. Paris: Gallimard, 1955. Translated by Joseph Bien under the title Adventures of the Dialectic (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973; London: Heinemann, 1974).
Les Philosophes célèbres (Editor). Paris: Mazenod, 1956.
Les Sciences de l’homme et la phénoménologie. Paris: Centre de Documentation Universitaire, 1958; reprinted, 1975. Translated by John Wild under the title “Phenomenology and the Sciences of Man,” in The Primacy of Perception (1964), 43-95.
Éloge de la Philosophie et autres essais. Paris: Gallimard, 1960.
“Préface” to A. Hesnard, L’Œuvre de Freud. Paris: Payot, 1960. Translated by Alden L. Fisher as “Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis: Preface to Hesnard’s L’Oeuvre de Freud.” In Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry 18 (1982), 33-63; Reprinted as Merleau-Ponty & Psychology, edited by Keith Hoeller (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1993).
Signes. Paris: Gallimard, 1960. Translated by Richard C McCleary under the title Signs (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964).
Merleau-Ponty à la Sorbonne: Résumés de ses cours établi par des étudiants et approuvé par lui-même. Special Issue of Bulletin de Psychologie, n. 236, tome 18 (November, 1964). Reprinted as Merleau-Ponty à la Sorbonne: résumés de cours 1949-1952. Paris: Cynara, 1988; and as Psychologie et pédagogie de l'enfant, cours de Sorbonne 1949-1952. Lagrasse: Verdier, 2001.
L’Œil et l’esprit. Paris: Gallimard, 1964. Translated by Carleton Dallery under the title “Eye and Mind,” in The Primacy of Perception (1964), 159-190. Revised translation by Michael Smith in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader (1993), 121-149.
The Primacy of Perception and Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics. Edited by James M. Edie. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964.
Le Visible et l’invisible, suivi de notes de travail. Edited by Claude Lefort. Paris: Gallimard, 1964. Translated by Alphonso Lingis under the title The Visible and the Invisible, Followed by Working Notes (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968).
Résumés de cours, Collège de France 1952-1960. Paris: Gallimard, 1968. Translated by John O’Neill under the title Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France, 1952-1960 (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970).
L’Union de l’âme et du corps chez Malebranche, Biran et Bergson, Notes prises au cours de Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Paris: J. Vrin, 1968. Translated by Paul B. Milan as The Incarnate Subject: Malebranche, Biran, and Bergson on the Union of Body and Soul, edited by Andrew G. Bjelland Jr. and Patrick Burke (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2001).
The Essential Writings of Merleau-Ponty. Edited by Alden L. Fisher. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969.
La Prose du monde. Paris: Gallimard, 1969. Translated by John O’Neill under the title The Prose of the World (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973; London: Heinemann, 1974).
Existence et dialectique. Edited by Maurice Dayan. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1971.
“La Nature de la perception.” Appendix to Theodore F. Geraets, Vers une nouvelle philosophie transcendantale: La genèse de la philosophie de Maurice Merleau-Ponty jusqu’à la Phénoménologie de la perception (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971), 188-199. Translated by Forrest Williams as “Study Project on the Nature of Perception (1933)” and “The Nature of Perception (1934).” Research in Phenomenology 10 (1980), 1-20; reprinted as Merleau-Ponty: Perception, Structure, Language, edited by John Sallis (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1981). Reprinted in Texts and Dialogues (1991), 74-84.
Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language. Translated by Hugh J. Silverman. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973. [Translation of “La Conscience et l’acquisition du langage,” in Merleau-Ponty à la Sorbonne (1964), 226-259.]
Phenomenology, Language and Sociology: Selected Essays of Merleau-Ponty. Edited by John O’Neill. London: Heinemann, 1974.
“Philosophie et non-philosophie depuis Hegel - Notes de cours.” Textures, nos. 8-9 (1974) and 10-11 (1975). Translated by Hugh J. Silverman under the title “Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Hegel.” In Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Merleau-Ponty (New York: Routledge, 1988; reprinted, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997), 9-83.
“Table of Contents of ‘Phenomenology of Perception:’ Translation and Pagination.” Translated by Daniel Guerrière. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 10, no. 1 (January 1979): 65-69.
Approches phénoménologiques. Paris: Hachette, 1981.
“The Experience of Others.” Translated by Fred Evans and Hugh J. Silverman. In Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry 18 (1982), 33-63; Reprinted as Merleau-Ponty & Psychology, edited by Keith Hoeller (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1993).
In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1988. [Includes In Praise of Philosophy (1963) and Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France (1970).]
Le Primat de la perception et ses conséquences philosophiques ; précédé de Projet de travail sur la nature de la perception (1933) et La nature de la perception (1934). Grenoble: Cynara, 1989; reprinted, Lagrasse: Verdier, 1996.
Texts and Dialogues. Edited by Hugh J. Silverman and James Barry, Jr. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1991.
The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting. Edited by Galen Johnson. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993. [Includes revised translations by Michael Smith of “Cézanne’s Doubt,” “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence,” and “Eye and Mind”.]
“Sartre, Merleau-Ponty: les lettres d’une rupture.” Magazine littéraire, no. 320 (April 1994): 67-85. Translated by Jon Stewart under the title “Philosophy and Political Engagement: Letters from the Quarrel between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.” In The Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, edited by Jon Stewart (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998), 327-354. Alternative translation by Boris Belay under the title “Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: The Letters of the Breakup,” in Merleau-Ponty’s Later Works and their Practical Implications: The Dehiscence of Responsibility, edited by Duane H. Davis (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2001), 33-59.
La Nature, Notes, Cours du Collège de France. Edited by Dominique Séglard. Paris: Seuil, 1995. Translated by Robert Vallier as Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003).
Notes de cours, 1959-1961. Edited by Stéphanie Ménasé. Paris: Gallimard, 1996.
“Notes de lecture et commentaires sur Théorie du champ de la conscience de Aron Gurwitsch.” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, no. 3 (1997). Translated by Elizabeth Locey and Ted Toadvine as “Reading Notes and Comments on Aron Gurwitsch’s The Field of Consciousness.” Husserl Studies 17, no. 3 (2000): 173-193.
Parcours, 1935-1951. Lagrasse: Verdier, 1997.
Notes de cours sur L’origine de la géométrie de Husserl, Suivi de Recherches sur la phénoménologie de Merleau-Ponty. Edited by Renaud Barbaras. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998. Translated by Leonard Lawlor as Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology, Including texts by Edmund Husserl (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2002).
Parcours deux, 1951-1961. Edited by Jacques Prunair. Lagrasse: Verdier, 2000.
“Deux notes inédites sur la musique.” Chiasmi International 3 (2001): 17. Translated by Leonard Lawlor as “Two Unpublished Notes on Music,” Chiasmi International 3 (2001): 18.
Causeries 1948. Paris: Seuil, 2002. Translated by Oliver Davis under the title The World of Perception (London and New York: Routledge, 2004).
L'institution dans l'histoire personnelle et publique; Le problème de la passivité, le sommeil, l'inconscient, la mémoire: notes de cours au collège de France, 1954-1955. Paris: Belin, 2003.
Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings. Edited by Thomas Baldwin. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Secondary Bibliography
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Busch, Thomas W. Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics and Postmodernism. (Edited with Shaun Gallagher) Albany: SUNY Press, l992.
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Gallagher, Shaun and Thomas Busch, etc. in Merleau-Ponty,Hermeneutics and Postmodernism, ed. with Thomas Busch, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990).
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Langan, Thomas, Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Reason. Yale Univerity Press, 1966.
