Key works |
The monographs
published by Merleau-Ponty in his lifetime (here listed for the English reader in translation, but with original publication dates) are Structure of Behaviour (1943), Phenomenology
of Perception (1945), Humanism and
Terror (1947), In Praise of
Philosophy (1953), and Adventures of
the Dialectic (1955). As well, he published collections of essays in Sense and Non-Sense (1948) and Signs (1960). At the time of this death
Merleau-Ponty was working on a monograph, incomplete, which was titled The Visible and the Invisible (1961) by
its editor, Claude Lefort.The Prose of
the World is a project Merleau-Ponty abandoned circa 1952 that was
published in 1968, after his death. As well, a number of his lectures courses
have been published, drawing on notes from him and his students, on topics such
as child psychology, nature, Husserl, institution and passivity, the world of expression and sense, the use of language in literature (see the list of works by Merleau-Ponty for further details). For English readers, The Merleau-Ponty
Reader, The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics
Reader, and The Primacy of Perception contain helpful collections of and
selections from Merleau-Ponty’s published and unpublished texts. Also, The World of Perception, which is a
transcription from a series of radio addresses given by Merleau-Ponty in 1948,
offers a nice introduction to his early work. |