Bøker av Maurice Merleau-Ponty

First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's monumental book signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existenialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of twentieth-century thought. -- Book Jacket.

First published in France in 1947, this study asks whether communism could transcend its violence. It examines the Moscow trials of the late 1930s and Koestler's recreation of them, arguing that violence in the communist world can be understood only in the context of revolutionary activism.

"Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole." Thus does Maurice Merleau-Ponty describe speech in this collection of his important writings on the philosophy of expression, composed during the last decade of his life.

Connects the issue of passive constitution of meaning with the dimension of history, furthering discussions and completing arguments started in The Visible and the Invisible and Signs. This translation makes available to an English-speaking readership a critical transitional text in the history of phenomenology.

The first translation in to English of Merleau-Ponty's seven lectures on perception. Lucid and concise, Merleau-Ponty explores this theme through reflections on science, space, our relationships with others, animal life and art. Essential reading