The first reader to offer a comprehensive view of Maurice Merleau-Ponty s (1908-1961) work, this selection collects in one volume the foundational essays necessary for understanding the core of this critical twentieth-century philosopher s thought. Arranged chronologically, the essays are grouped in three sections corresponding to the major periods of Merleau-Ponty s work: First, the years prior to his appointment to the Sorbonne in 1949, the early, existentialist period during which he wrote important works on the phenomenology of perception and the primacy of perception; second, the...
The first reader to offer a comprehensive view of Maurice Merleau-Ponty s (1908-1961) work, this selection collects in one volume the foundational ess...
Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a range of Russian writers, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters explores themes of chance and fate, freedom and responsibility, beauty and disfiguration, and loss and separation, as well as concepts of criticism and the moral purpose of art.
Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a range of Russian writers, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn...