Raymond Aron called Merleau-Ponty "the most influential French philosopher of his generation." First published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two ideological armed camps. For Merleau-Ponty, the central question was: could Communism transcend its violence and intentions? The value of a society is the value it places upon man's relation to man, Merleau-Ponty examines not only the Moscow trials of the late thirties...

'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science - and also the insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger.' - James Elkins

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important thinkers of the post-war era. Central to his thought was the idea that human understanding comes from our bodily experience of the world that we perceive: a deceptively simple argument, perhaps, but one that he felt had to be made in the wake of...

First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's monumental Phenomenologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of twentieth-century thought. This new translation, the first for over fifty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers.

Phenomenology of Perception stands in the great phenomenological tradition of Husserl,...

Maurice Merleau-Ponty pronesl na College de France patnáct přednáškových cyklů (1952–1961). Po každém roce sepsal k příslušnému cyklu shrnutí a ta průběžně publikoval v ročence College. Souborné vydání shrnutí, které v roce 1968 uspořádal Merleau-Pontyho žák a přítel Claude Lefort, tak přináší ucelený přehled o tom, jak Merleau-Ponty interpretoval řadu důležitých filosofických témat ve středním a pozdním období své filosofické kariéry. Mezi tato témata patřilo zejména vyjadřování, mluva a řeč, dějinné utváření smyslu, příroda,...