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• André Breton

  French poet and essayist (1896–1966), founder of Surrealism. In the wiki's context, the source of the "sublime point" concept that Merleau-Ponty adopts as a structural figure for the coincidence of antinomies — the point where "life and de…

• Claude Simon

  French novelist (1913–2005), Nobel Prize in Literature 1985. In the wiki's context, the literary source of Merleau-Ponty's expression "flesh of the world" — MP explicitly cites Simon's Le Vent (1957), p. 98 in the 1961 course "Cartesian On…

• Cristallisation

  Merleau-Ponty's cardinal anti-Sartre concept, appropriated from Stendhal's De l'Amour (1822) via Breton's L'Amour fou (1937). Cristallisation names the passive-active process by which the loved object (and, generalized, every perceived thi…

• Francis Ponge

  French poet, theorist of the parti pris des choses (siding-with-things). Author of Le parti pris des choses (1942), Méthodes (1961), and the prose-poems "Notes pour un coquillage," "Le Galet," "La Pluie," "Le Cageot," "L'Orange," "L'Huître…

• Jean de La Fontaine

  French poet and fabulist (1621–1695), author of the Fables choisies, mises en vers (12 books, 1668–1694). On the wiki La Fontaine appears through BS-I in the load-bearing role of supplying the seminar's opening epigraph and operative fable…

• Madeleine Chapsal

  French journalist and novelist (b. 1925); interviewer, sometime editor at L'Express. Author of Les Écrivains en personne (Julliard, 1960), a collection of interviews with major French intellectuals of her time. The Chapsal-conducted 1960 i…

• Marcel Proust

  French novelist (1871–1922), author of À la recherche du temps perdu. In the wiki's context, Merleau-Ponty's privileged literary source for phenomenological evidence about love, memory, time, the body's grasp of space-time, and the "Albert…

• Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature Galen A. Johnson, Mauro Carbone, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, 2020

  Author(s): Galen A. Johnson, Mauro Carbone, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert Year: 2020 Type: Book (co-authored, Fordham University Press, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy series)

• Paul Claudel

  French poet, dramatist, and essayist (1868–1955), author of Art poétique (1907). In the wiki's context, one of Merleau-Ponty's most deeply embedded literary sources — the origin of co-naissance and, through the Treatise on Co-Naissance, th…

• Paul Valéry

  French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945). Source of two key terms in Merleau-Ponty's late ontology — "chiasm" and "implex" — and of the artist-becomes-organ figure MP cites in Eye and Mind. The 2026-04-28 ingest of Œuvres II Pléi…

• Stendhal (Henri Beyle)

  French novelist (1783–1842), born Henri-Marie Beyle in Grenoble; principal pseudonym "Stendhal" (after the German town Stendal); reputed to have used over 200 pseudonyms (César Bombet, Jules de Saint-Bertrand, etc.). Author of Le Rouge et…

• Œuvres II (Pléiade) Paul Valéry, 1960

  Author(s): Paul Valéry (1871–1945) Year: 1960 (Pléiade composite; constituent works span 1894–1946) Type: book (Pléiade composite volume of dialogues, Cahier recueils, prose pieces, and essays) Editor: Jean Hytier Edition: Bibliothèque de…