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• Edmund Husserl

  German philosopher (1859-1938), founder of phenomenology. In Merleau-Ponty's Course Notes, Husserl's entire philosophical trajectory is traced as an exemplary case of philosophy becoming "a problem for itself" — the internal radicalization…

• Ernst Cassirer

  German neo-Kantian philosopher (1874–1945), best known for the Philosophie der symbolischen Formen (3 vols., 1923–29) and for the 1929 Davos disputation with Heidegger. For this wiki, Cassirer matters chiefly as the silent source of Merlea…

• Erwin Panofsky

  German-American art historian (1892–1968), a founder of modern iconology and the theory of "symbolic forms" in art history. In the wiki's context, Merleau-Ponty's primary source for the history of Renaissance perspective in the 1954–55 Ins…

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  German philosopher (1844–1900). Classical philologist by training, briefly professor at the University of Basel (1869–1879), author of a body of work spanning philology, cultural criticism, aesthetics, ethics, and — on Chouraqui's reading…

• G. W. F. Hegel

  German philosopher (1770–1831). Author of the Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807), the Wissenschaft der Logik (1812-16), the Encyclopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften (1817/1827/1830), and lectures on Geschichte der Philosophie, Aesthe…

• Immanuel Kant

  German philosopher (1724-1804), author of the three Critiques. In Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, Kant represents both the paradigm of transcendental thinking and its fundamental limitation: Kant grasps the necessity of the transcendental turn…

• Karl Marx

  German philosopher, economist, and political theorist (1818–1883); co-author with Friedrich Engels of The Communist Manifesto (1848); author of Capital (Vol. I 1867), the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (published 1932), The G…

• Martin Heidegger

  German philosopher (1889-1976). In Merleau-Ponty's Course Notes, Heidegger receives "the most rigorous, detailed, and explicit engagement" found anywhere in Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre (Course 1, Part II.B). Merleau-Ponty traces the passage fro…

• Max Scheler

  German phenomenologist (1874–1928); Munich phenomenology school. Author of Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik (1913–16), Vom Umsturz der Werte (collection containing "Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen", 1912), Di…

• Max Weber

  German sociologist, political economist, and philosopher of history (1864–1920); author of Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1905), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (posth. 1922), "Politik als Beruf" (1919), and methodol…

• Max Wertheimer

  Czech-Austrian psychologist (1880–1943), founder of Gestalt psychology. His 1923 paper Untersuchungen zur Lehre von der Gestalt (English: "Laws of Organization in Perceptual Forms," in W. D. Ellis ed., A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology,…

• Nietzsche I Martin Heidegger, 1961

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1961 (lectures: 1936/37, 1937, 1939; Vorwort: May 1961) Type: Lecture course (three courses; published Neske 1961, GA 6.1 ed. Brigitte Schillbach 1996)

• Nietzsche II Martin Heidegger, 1961

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1961 (compositions: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944-46; published Neske 1961, GA 6.2 ed. Brigitte Schillbach 1997) Type: Hybrid (lecture course + Abhandlungen + genealogical sketches + methodological meditation)