2 papers in the library · 10 citations · publishing 2017-2023
Contributions to Phenomenology 2023 Robin M. Muller
Abstract Merleau-Ponty wrote prolifically throughout his life on psychology, aesthetics, and politics, on pedagogy, physics, and painting. Between his appointment to the Université de Lyon in 1945 and his sudden death in Paris in 1961—a copy of Descartes’Dioptriqueon the desk in front of him—the survey of courses he taught is dizzying in scope. For all its promise, however, the...
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy June 28, 2017 Robin M. Muller 10 citations
The trajectory of Merleau-Ponty's career is often seen as a progressive development: he begins by analyzing scientific consciousness in The Structure of Behavior, complements that account with a phenomenological analysis of behavior as lived in Phenomenology of Perception, and then overcomes the "philosophy of consciousness" to which the earlier texts are committed in the turn toward an...