Institution and Passivity : Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

ISBN 10: 0810126893 / ISBN 13: 9780810126893

Published by Univ Of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Jun 2010, 2010

About this Item

Neuware - Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection 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 (both published by Northwestern). Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey s translation makes available to an English-speaking readership a critical transitional text in the history of phenomenology.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Institution and Passivity : Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955)
• Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Jun 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810126893
• ISBN 13: 9780810126893
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 153H x 27D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 481 grams

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Synopsis

Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection 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 (both published by Northwestern). Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey’s translation makes available to an English-speaking readership a critical transitional text in the history of phenomenology.

About the Author

MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY (1908–1961), along with Sartre, introduced phenomenology to France. nHe held the chair of Child Psychology and Pedagogy at the University of the Sorbonne, which was later held by Jean Piaget. He then became professor of philosophy at the Collège de France.

LEONARD LAWLOR is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He previously translated Merleau-Ponty’s Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology for Northwestern University Press.

HEATH MASSEY is an assistant professor of philosophy at Beloit College.