The world of perception

The World of Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-125

  Merleau Ponty, Maurice ^a  

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References (73)

1. Phénoménologie de la perception (Paris: Gallimard, 1945); translated by Colin Smith as Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge, 1962). Page references are to the new 2002 edition of this English translation.
2. Sartre's account of his childhood is set out in his autobiographical sketch Les Mots (Paris: Gallimard, 1964; trans. I. Clephane, Words, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967).
3. Camus tells his very different story in his posthumously published incomplete novel Le Premier Homme (Paris: Gallimard, 1994; trans. D. Hapgood, The First Man, London: Penguin, 1996).
4. Phenomenology of Perception p. 403
5. La Structure du comportement (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1942); translated by Alden Fisher as The Structure of Behavior (Boston MA: Beacon, 1963).
6. I discuss it at greater length in my introduction to Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings (London: Routledge, 2003).
7. For a more extended discussion, see The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty by E. Matthews (Chesham: Acumen, 2002).
8. See A. Cohen-Solal Sartre: A Life (London: Heinemann, 1987) pp. 164ff.
9. L'Etre et le néant (Paris: Gallimard, 1943); translated by Hazel Barnes as Being and Nothingness (London: Methuen, 1958).
10. See especially the essay 'The war has taken place' (1945) in Sense and Non-Sense.
11. Sartre's long essay about Merleau-Ponty describes their collaboration and eventual parting - 'Merleau-Ponty vivant', Les Temps Modernes 17 (1961) pp. 304-76; translated by B. Eisler as 'Merleau-Ponty' in Situations (New York: G. Braziller, 1965).
12. Sens et non-sens (Paris: Nagel, 1948); translated by H. Dreyfus and P. Dreyfus as Sense and Non-Sense (Evanston, ILL: Northwestern University Press, 1964).
13. Les Aventures de la dialectique (Paris: Gallimard, 1955); translated by J. Bien as The Adventures of the Dialectic (Evanston, ILL: Northwestern University Press, 1973).
14. Signes (Paris: Gallimard, 1960); translated by R. McCleary as Signs (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964).
15. Le Visible et l'invisible (Paris: Gallimard 1964); translated by A. Lingis as The Visible and the Invisible (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968).
16. Phenomenology of Perception p. 373.
17. Phenomenology of Perception p. 458.
18. Phenomenology of Perception p. 353
19. Phenomenology of Perception p. 239.
20. Phenomenology of Perception p. 241; the reference here to a flaw in the great diamond is to a famous poem by Paul Valéry, Le Cimetière marin.
21. Phenomenology of Perception p. xv.
22. Phenomenology of Perception pp. 376-7. Merleau-Ponty also published a fine essay on Cézanne ('Cézanne's Doubt') in Sense and Non-Sense.
23. Phenomenology of Perception pp. 144-5.
24. The Structure of Behavior pp. 93-128.
25. The Phenomenology of Perception Part II, Chapter 4 - 'Other Selves and the Human World'.
26. Elsewhere, when discussing language, Merleau-Ponty places great weight on the 'creative' uses of language; see Phenomenology of Perception pp. 207-8.
27. Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, in Selected Philosophical Writings, trans. by Cottingham, Stroothoff & Murdoch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), Second Meditation, p. 80.
28. Julien Benda, La France byzantine ou Le Triomphe de la littérature pure. Mallarmé, Gide, Valéry, Alain, Giraudoux, Suarès, les surréalistes. Essai d'une psychologie originelle du littérateur (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).
29. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. A Memoir with Conversations, trans. by C. Pemberton (London: Thames and Hudson, 1991), p. 221.
30. Paulhan, 'La Peinture moderne ou l'espace sensible au coeur', La Table ronde, No. 2, February 1948, p. 280.
31. Paulhan uses this expression again in a revised version of this article in La Peinture cubiste (Paris: Gallimard, 1953), p. 174.
32. Paulhan, La Table ronde, p. 280.
33. Malebranche, The Search After Truth, trans. and ed. by T. Lennon and P. Olscamp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), I, ch. 7, s.5, pp. 35-6.
34. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness. An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology, trans. by Hazel Barnes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1956), p. 609.
35. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, p. 151.
36. Sartre, Being and Nothingness, p. 186.
37. Paul Claudel, The East I Know, trans. by T. Frances and W. Benét (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914).
38. Sartre, 'L'Homme et les Choses', Situations, I (Paris: Gallimard, 1948), p. 227.
39. Francis Ponge, The Nature of Things, trans. by Lee Fahnestock (New York: Red Dust, 1942), p. 29.
40. Gaston Bachelard, Air and Dreams (Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1988)
41. Water and Dreams (Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1999)
42. The Psychoanalysis of Fire, trans. by Alan Ross (London: Routledge, 1964)
43. Earth and the Reveries of Will (Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 2002).
44. Probably an allusion to Mad Love (University of Nebraska Press, 1987).
45. Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part Five, in Selected Writings, p. 45.
46. Voltaire, Essai sur l'histoire générale et sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations, depuis Charlemagne jusqu'à nos jours (1753, revised and expanded 1761-63).
47. Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part Six, in Selected Writings, p. 47.
48. Albert Michotte, The Perception of Causality, trans. by T. Miles and E. Miles (London: Methuen, 1963).
49. Köhler, The Mentality of Apes, trans. by E. Winter (London: Routledge, 1973).
50. Freud, 'Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy', Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. X, pp. 1-149.
51. Gaston Bachelard, Lautréamont (Paris: Corti, 1939).
52. Paul Claudel, 'Interroge les animaux', Figaro littéraire, No. 129, 9 October 1948, p.1. Reprinted in 'Quelques planches du Bestiaire spirituel' in Figures et paraboles, in Oeuvres en prose (Paris: Gallimard 'Pléiade', 1965), pp. 982-1000.
53. Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part Five, in Selected Writings, p. 46
54. Franz Kafka, 'The Metamorphosis', trans. N. Glatzer, The Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka (London: Minerva, 1992), pp. 89-139.
55. Franz Kafka, 'Investigations of a Dog', The Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka, pp. 278-316.
56. Maurice Blanchot, The Most High (Bison Books, 2001).
57. Joachim Gasquet, Cézanne (Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1926), pp. 130-1.
58. Georges Braque, Notebooks 1917-1947, trans. by S. Appelbaum (New York: Dover, 1971), p. 22.
59. Stéphane Mallarmé, passim. See, in particular, his Réponses à des enquêtes (response to Jules Huret, 1891), in Oeuvres complètes (Paris: Gallimard, Pléiade, 1945).
60. Henri Bremond, La Poésie pure, his lecture at the public session of the five Academies, 24 October 1925 (Paris: Grasset, 1926).
61. Paul Valéry, passim.
62. See, for example, 'Avant-propos' (1920), Variété (Paris: Gallimard, 1924);
63. 'Je disais quelquefois à Stéphane Mallarmé . . .' (1931), Variété III (Paris: Gallimard, 1936);
64. 'Dernière visite à Mallarmé' (1923), Variété II (Paris: Gallimard, 1930);
65. 'Propos sur la poésie' (1927)
66. 'Poésie et pensée abstraite' (1939), Variété V (Paris: Gallimard, 1944).
67. See also Frédéric Lefèvre, Entretiens avec Paul Valéry, with a Preface by Henri Bremond (Paris: Le Livre, 1926).
68. See, in particular, The Blanchot Reader, ed. by Holland (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995)
69. 'How is Literature Possible?' and Blanchot, Faux pas (Paris: Gallimard, 1943), 'La poésie de Mallarmé est-elle obscure?'.
70. Descartes, The Principles of Philosophy, II, Nos. 36-42 in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, trans. by Cottingham, Stroothoff & Murdoch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), Vol. 1.
71. Marcel Proust, La Prisonnière, trans. by Carol Clark (London: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2002).
72. Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, trans. by Peter Collier (London: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2002).
73. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, p. 164.