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• Alexandre Kojève

  Russian-born French philosopher, anthropologist of Hegel, the dominant figure of the French Hegel-Renaissance of the 1930s. Author of the Introduction à la lecture de Hegel (Gallimard, 1947, ed. Raymond Queneau) — the published form of his…

• André Bazin

  French film theorist (1918–1958); co-founder of Cahiers du cinéma (1951) and spiritual father of the Nouvelle Vague. For the purposes of this wiki he matters because he is the only contemporary cinema figure whom Merleau-Ponty names in the…

• André Malraux

  French novelist, art theorist, Resistance hero, and statesman (1901–1976). Author of Les Voix du silence (1951; English: The Voices of Silence, 1953), the three-volume Psychologie de l'Art (1947, 1949, 1950: Le Musée imaginaire / La Créati…

• Claude Lefort

  French political philosopher (1924–2010), Merleau-Ponty's student, literary executor, and principal editor of the posthumous course notes and working manuscripts. In the wiki's context, the editor of The Visible and the Invisible (1964) an…

• Claude Lévi-Strauss

  French anthropologist (1908–2009), founder of structural anthropology, and Merleau-Ponty's friend and colleague at the Collège de France. In Signs' "From Mauss to Claude Lévi-Strauss" (1959), MP reads Lévi-Strauss as the successor to Marce…

• Daniel Guérin

  French historian, anarchist-communist activist, and political writer (1904–1988); author of La Lutte des classes sous la Première République (2 vols., 1946), Fascisme et grand capital (1936), Où va le peuple américain? (1950), and many wor…

• Emmanuel de Saint Aubert

  French philosopher and leading contemporary interpreter of Merleau-Ponty. Affiliated with the Husserl Archives in Paris (UMR 8547 ENS/CNRS). Author of a five-volume sequence that has systematically reconstructed MP's thought from the unpub…

• Emmanuel Levinas

  Lithuanian-born French philosopher (1906-1995). Author of Totality and Infinity (1961), Otherwise than Being (1974), and Existence and Existents (1947). In Knight's reading, Levinas is the principal counter-figure to Merleau-Ponty's elemen…

• 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…

• Gaston Bachelard

  French philosopher of science and imagination (1884-1962). Author of Water and Dreams (1942), The Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938), The Poetics of Space (1958), and numerous other works on the material imagination. Knight argues that Bachelar…

• Gilbert Simondon

  French philosopher (1924–1989) best known for his theory of individuation and for his rehabilitation of the philosophical significance of technical objects. On this wiki he matters primarily as the background figure behind dividuation (Car…

• Gilles Deleuze

  French philosopher (1925–1995), author of Difference and Repetition (1968), Logic of Sense (1969), and (with Félix Guattari) Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Although a generation younger than Merleau-Ponty and not typic…

• Henri Bergson

  French philosopher (1859-1941), Nobel laureate (1927), author of Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience (1889), Matter and Memory (1896), Creative Evolution (1907), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), and Thought an…

• Henri Maldiney

  French philosopher, phenomenologist of art and aesthetic experience, professor at the École des Hautes Études of Ghent and (from 1955–56) the University of Lyon. MP's earliest interlocuteur attentif and — per the Inédits I (Mimésis 2022) e…

• Henri Wallon

  French developmental psychologist and Marxist politician (1879–1962), founder of the Enfance journal. For the purposes of this wiki, Wallon matters as the primary empirical source of Merleau-Ponty's 1950–51 Sorbonne course on The Child's R…

• Jacques Derrida

  French philosopher (1930–2004), founder of deconstruction, author of Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), Margins of Philosophy (1972), The Truth in Painting (1978), The Post Card (1980), Specters of Marx (1993), On Touch…

• Jean Hyppolite

  French philosopher, the dominant Hegel-translator-and-commentator of the post-war French philosophical scene; MP's ENS condisciple, longtime friend, and intellectual interlocutor. Author of the historic French translation of Hegel's Phänom…

• 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…

• Jean-François Lyotard

  French philosopher (1924–1998); phenomenologist-turned-figural-theorist and later theorist of the "postmodern condition." For the purposes of this wiki he is primarily relevant as Carbone's interlocutor on the ontology of the screen — the…

• Jean-Luc Nancy

  French philosopher (1940-2021), major figure in contemporary continental philosophy. Author of works on community (The Inoperative Community), the body (Corpus, Sexistence), art (The Muses), and the nature of sense and touch. His thought d…

• Jean-Paul Sartre

  French philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual (1905–1980). Merleau-Ponty's closest philosophical interlocutor through the 1940s and early 1950s, co-founder with MP of Les Temps Modernes (1945), and the addressee of the Introduction…

• Lucien Febvre

  French historian (1878–1956), co-founder of the Annales school of historiography with Marc Bloch. In the wiki's context, the positive model of historical method in Merleau-Ponty's 1954–55 Institution and Passivity course. MP reads Febvre's…

• Léon Brunschvicg

  French neo-Kantian philosopher (1869–1944); Sorbonne professor (1909–40); a dominant figure in French academic philosophy during MP's formation (late 1920s–early 1930s). Author of Les Étapes de la philosophie mathématique (1912), Le Progrè…

• Maine de Biran

  French philosopher (1766–1824) of the body's motor-evidence and of the fait primitif. Author of the Essai sur les fondements de la psychologie et sur ses rapports avec l'étude de la nature. Per Saint Aubert (2006 Ch II §2), Biran is a card…

• Maurice Blondel

  French Catholic philosopher (1861–1949), author of L'Action (1893) and L'Être et les êtres. Essai d'ontologie concrète et intégrale (1935). Per Saint Aubert (2006 Ch III §2b), Blondel is the cardinal genealogical source for Merleau-Ponty's…

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  French phenomenologist and philosopher (1908-1961). Professor at the Collège de France from 1952 until his sudden death from a heart attack on May 3, 1961 — he was reading Descartes's Dioptrique and preparing notes for his course "Cartesia…

• Mauro Carbone

  Italian philosopher (b. 1956) working primarily in French; specialist in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics and ontology, and in the philosophical significance of cinema and digital screens. Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France; P…

• Michel de Montaigne

  French Renaissance philosopher (1533–1592), author of the Essais. Merleau-Ponty reads Montaigne in Signs' "Reading Montaigne" (1947) as a proto-phenomenologist of incarnation — the first modern philosopher who takes "the 'mixture' of the s…

• Philippe Grosos

  French philosopher; author of Des profondeurs de nos cavernes — Préhistoire – Art – Philosophie (Paris: Les éditions du Cerf, 2021), a book-length philosophical engagement with prehistoric cave art. Grosos advocates a shift in philosophica…

• Raymond Aron

  French philosopher, sociologist, political commentator. ENS condisciple of Sartre and MP (1924); agrégé 1928; doctorate 1938 with the Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire — the work MP critiques continuously from the Brussels 1946 l…

• Raymond Ruyer

  French philosopher (1902–1987), specialist in the philosophy of biology and animal behavior. In the wiki's context, Merleau-Ponty's primary source for the animal and embryological material in the 1954–55 Institution course. MP follows Ruye…

• Renaud Barbaras

  French phenomenologist (b. 1955), Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Largely credited with sparking the Merleau-Ponty "renaissance" in French phenomenology in the early 1990s. Author of The Being of the Phenomenon: Merleau-…

• 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…

• The Voices of Silence André Malraux, 1953

  Author(s): André Malraux (1901–1976) Year: 1953 (English) / 1951 (French Les Voix du silence) Type: book

• Vers une ontologie indirecte Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, 2006

  Author: Emmanuel de Saint Aubert Year: 2006 Type: book Subtitle: Sources et enjeux critiques de l'appel à l'ontologie chez Merleau-Ponty Publisher: Vrin, Bibliothèque d'histoire de la philosophie ISBN: 978-2-7116-1852-1

• Vincent Descombes

  French philosopher (b. 1943) working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and social philosophy. Major works include L'inconscient malgré lui (1977), Grammaire d'objets en tous genres (1983), Les institutions du sens (The Institu…

• Éric Weil

  German-born French philosopher, naturalized 1938. Author of Logique de la philosophie (Vrin 1950) and Hegel et l'État (Vrin 1950) — both works on Hegel and post-Hegelian philosophy. Parallel reader of Hegel to MP in the late 1940s; lecture…

• Être et chair chez Merleau-Ponty Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, 2023

  Author: Emmanuel de Saint Aubert Year: 2023 Type: Paper (lecture-derived article, French) Publication: Ágora Filosófica 23(3), pp. 5–35. DOI: 10.25247/P1982-999X.2023.v23n3.p05-35 HAL: hal-04284557 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)