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Andrew Inkpin
Philosopher at the University of Melbourne working at the intersection of phenomenology, philosophy of language, and Wittgensteinian community-of-practice analyses. Author of "Merleau-Ponty on painting, sedimentation, and the cultural worl…
Annabelle Dufourcq
French Merleau-Ponty scholar; author of Merleau-Ponty, une ontologie de l'imaginaire (Phaenomenologica vol. 204, Springer, 2012), a substantial monograph on MP's philosophy of the imaginary. The wiki encounters Dufourcq via Décarie-Daignea…
Benjamin Décarie-Daigneault
Penn State PhD researcher (bqd5342@psu.edu); author of two wiki-ingested papers:
Caleb Faul
Department of Philosophy and Ethics, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. Author of "Ontologically Interactive Painting: On Susan Rothenberg's Three Heads," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55:2 (2024), 184–197 — the wi…
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…
David Morris
Contemporary Merleau-Ponty scholar at Concordia University (Montreal). Co-editor with Kym Maclaren of Time, Memory, Institution: Merleau-Ponty's New Ontology of Self (Ohio University Press, 2015), one of the principal English-language volu…
E. H. Gombrich
Austrian-British art historian and philosopher of art (1909–2001). His Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960) develops a resemblance-and-schema account of pictorial representation: pictures represent…
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…
Emmanuel Alloa
Contemporary continental philosopher specializing in phenomenology, aesthetics, and the legacy of Merleau-Ponty. On the wiki, Alloa is principally an editorial presence: co-editor (with Chouraqui and Kaushik) of Merleau-Ponty and Contempor…
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…
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…
Frank Chouraqui
French-trained, Anglophone-publishing philosopher of phenomenology (Leiden University), specialist on the structural convergence between Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the question of truth and on the formal structure of "intra-ontology" —…
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…
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
German philosopher (1775-1854), founder of Naturphilosophie. In Knight's reading, Schelling is the decisive — and insufficiently acknowledged — influence on Merleau-Ponty's late ontology. Where the standard reception traces Merleau-Ponty's…
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…
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…
Galen A. Johnson
Senior Anglophone Merleau-Ponty scholar; co-author (with Carbone and Saint Aubert) of Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature (Fordham University Press, 2020) — a genuine ten-year co-authorship rather than a collecte…
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…
Georg Lukács
Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary theorist, and political figure (1885–1971); author of Die Theorie des Romans (1916), Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein (1923 — the single most important work for MP's engagement), Der junge Hegel (19…
Gilbert Ryle
British analytic philosopher (1900–1976), professor of metaphysical philosophy at Oxford (1945–68), editor of Mind. Author of The Concept of Mind (1949), the foundational text of mid-century philosophical behaviourism / dispositionalism, a…
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…
H. L. Van Breda
Belgian Franciscan philosopher and historian of phenomenology (1911–1974); founder of the Husserl Archives at the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie of the University of Louvain. In autumn 1938, after Husserl's death earlier that year, Van…
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…
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…
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 Piaget
Swiss developmental psychologist and genetic epistemologist (1896–1980). For the wiki, Piaget matters as the contrast figure against whom Merleau-Ponty sets his own developmental phenomenology — and against whom Wallon is silently preferre…
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…
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…
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist (1879–1940); leader of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War; principal Bolshevik opponent of Stalin after Lenin's death; expelled from the USSR in 1929; founder of the Fourth International in 193…
Lisa van Sorge
Phenomenologist at Tilburg University working in contemporary Dutch phenomenological aesthetics. Author of "Painting as an Embodied Act of Framing: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics with Merleau-Ponty and Derrida" (Open Access, CC-BY-4.…
Luca Taddio
Italian philosopher at the University of Udine, working at the intersection of Merleau-Pontyan phenomenology, Italian Gestalt experimental phenomenology (Trieste school: Bozzi, Burigana, Massironi, Kanizsa), and the philosophy of pictorial…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian-British philosopher (1889–1951). His later work — Philosophical Investigations (1953/2003), Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (1980, Vols. 1–2) — engages problems of perception, depiction, aspect-seeing, and the relation bet…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nelson Goodman
American philosopher (1906–1998), exponent of analytic aesthetics and constructive nominalism. His Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (1968; 2nd ed. 1976) develops a denotational/symbolic theory of pictorial representatio…
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian political theorist and diplomat (1469–1527), author of The Prince and the Discourses on Titus Livy. In Signs' "A Note on Machiavelli" (1949, originally given to a Rome-Florence conference on humanism and political science), Merleau…
Parmenides
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c. 515 BCE – after 450 BCE), of Elea in Magna Graecia. Author of a hexameter philosophical poem (the so-called Lehrgedicht) of which only fragments survive — most importantly Fragment I (the proem) and Fragm…
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…
Rajiv Kaushik
Professor of Philosophy at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Specialist in Merleau-Ponty's ontology, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis. Author of Merleau-Ponty Between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology (SUNY…
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-…
Sara Ahmed
Independent feminist scholar (formerly Goldsmiths, University of London; Lancaster University), working at the intersections of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, postcolonialism, and phenomenology. Author of Queer Phenom…
Sebastian Gardner
Professor of Philosophy at University College London; specialist on Kant, Schelling, and German Idealism, with sustained engagement of how the post-Kantian tradition bears on continental philosophy of mind and ontology. Two wiki sources sp…
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…
Taylor Knight
Author of Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism (Edinburgh University Press, New Perspectives in Ontology series, 2024; foreword by Emmanuel Falque) — the wiki's primary source for the elemental-ontology…
Ted Toadvine
American philosopher and Merleau-Ponty scholar; author of The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). A key interpreter of MP's later philosophy of nature, animality, and the pre-pe…
Vladimir Lenin
Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist (1870–1924); leader of the Bolshevik faction from 1903, of the Russian Revolution from 1917, and head of the Soviet government until his death. Author of What Is To Be Done? (1902), Materialism an…