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Conférences en Amérique, notes de cours et autres textes — Inédits II (1947–1949)
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) Year: notes 1947–1949 (composition); 2022 (posthumous critical edition) Type: notes (manuscript notes for course, conferences, and reading-notes)
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Conférences en Europe et premiers cours à Lyon — Inédits I (1946–1947)
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) Year: notes 1946–1947 (composition); 2022 (posthumous critical edition) Type: notes (manuscript notes for conferences and courses)
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Gabriel Marcel
French Christian existentialist philosopher (1889–1973); author of Métaphysical Journal (1927), Être et avoir (1935; English: Being and Having 1949), Du refus à l'invocation (1940), Le Mystère de l'être (1951). One of the early-MP's princi…
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Gloria
Merleau-Ponty's term — borrowed from Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, where it is Maria's word for the moment of harmony in which "events respond to their will" — for the moment of victory in commitment under contingency. The gloria "m…
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Jean Wahl
French philosopher, the principal passeur of Hegel and Kierkegaard into French philosophy from the 1920s through the 1950s. Author of Le Malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel (1929) — the foundational French Hegel-commentar…
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Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and existentialist philosopher (1883–1969), author of Philosophie (three vols., 1932), Existenzphilosophie (1938), Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (1949), and many other works. With Heidegger, one of the two…
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Luis Villoro
Mexican philosopher, born in Barcelona to Spanish parents. Founder and de facto leader of the Hypérion philosophical group in Mexico City (autumn 1948–1953). Long-term professor at UNAM and the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas; lat…
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Man, the Hero (the Contemporary Hero)
Merleau-Ponty's existential-ethical figure of the post-1940 hero — the figure "condemned to follow out fragile meanings without either the triumph of an absolute or the relief of despair." The concept is given its concentrated statement in…
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Nicolas Berdyaev
Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher (1874–1948), exiled to France (1922) after expulsion from the Soviet Union; one of the central figures of the early-20th-century existentialist-personalist line. Author of The Meaning of the Creative…
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Sense and Non-Sense
Author(s): Maurice Merleau-Ponty Year: 1948 (French original); 1964 (English translation) Type: book (collection of essays, 13 chapters + author's Preface + Translators' Introduction)
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Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual (1908–1986). Educated at the École Normale Supérieure during the same period as Merleau-Ponty (Sorbonne / ENS late-1920s); lifelong intellectual partner of Sartre; author of Le deuxième…
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Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher and theologian (1813–1855), the père fondateur of modern existentialism, who articulated the "irreducibility of the source and spring of liberty" against the impersonal architectonic of Hegel's System. Author of Either/O…
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The Antithetic Critique of Sartre
Merleau-Ponty's diagnostic that Sartre's L'Être et le néant (1943) "remains too exclusively antithetic" — that Sartre presents the for-itself / in-itself and the for-myself / for-others relations as alternatives rather than as "the living…