This volume of the collected writings of John Sallis presents a two-semester lecture course on Maurice Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971.
Richard Rojcewicz is Scholar-in-Residence in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, the translator of several works by Martin Heidegger, and author of The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger..
He is author of more than 20 books, including Light Traces, The Return of Nature, and The Figure of Nature.
Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.
About the Author: John Sallis is Frederick J.
For Sallis\'s part, these lectures are foundational for his extended engagement with Merleau-Ponty\'s The Visible and the Invisible, which was published in Sallis\'s Phenomenology and the Return to Beginnings.
Merleau-Ponty\'s notion of the primacy of perception and his claim that "the end of a Philosophy is the account of its beginning" are woven throughout the lectures.
Sallis illuminates Merleau-Ponty\'s first two works and offers a thread to follow through developments in his later essays.
The central topics considered in the lectures include the functions of the Phenomenological body; beyond realism and idealism; the structures of the lived world; spatiality, temporality, language, sexuality; and perception and knowledge.
Devoted primarily to a close reading of the French philosopher\'s magnum opus, Phenomenology of Perception, the course begins with a detailed analysis of The Structure of Behavior.
This volume of the collected writings of John Sallis presents a two-semester lecture course on Maurice Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971
