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Merleau-Ponty and the twentieth-century European corpus around him — phenomenology, late ontology, French post-Hegelianism, philosophy of language. Close reading, slowly. 907 pages (126 sources, 541 concepts, 216 entities, 24 questions).
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Concept
Institution
Merleau-Ponty's counter-concept to Husserlian constitution, developed in his 1954–55 Collège de France course "Institution in Personal and Public History." For a constituting subject, "there are only the objects which…
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Source
The Visible and the Invisible
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (manuscript), edited by Claude Lefort — 1964
Merleau-Ponty's unfinished late masterwork — what was meant to be a "phenomenological ontology" inquiring into "the origin of truth" through a philosophy of "wild" or pre-objective Nature. The published text consists of…
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Claim
The "says Valéry" painter-body attribution in Eye and Mind traces to Mauvaises pensées et autres (Pléiade…
Supported
MP's Valéry attribution in Eye and Mind §[2] — THE PAINTER "takes his body with him," says Valéry (raw l. 43; the celebrated next sentence, "It is by lending his body to the world that the artist…
Paper A
23 supported 142 live 131 candidate 3 contested 5 retired
13 open Paper-A questions
Open Paper A →- concept Circulus Vitiosus Deus
- entity G. W. F. Hegel
- concept Indirect Ontology
- source Investigations into the Literary Use of Language
- concept Involuntary Literature
- question Is Ineinander the late ontology's replacement for institution, or its ontological ground?
- concept Master-Slave Dialectic
- concept Recognition and Institution