Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) represent two of the most important figures in the modern European intellectual tradition. Their thought has profoundly influenced most of the major schools of contemporary philosophy and social theory, including phenomenology, existentialism, Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and hermeneutics.\ The Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty provides a balanced portrait of the intellectual relationship between these two...
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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) represent two of the most important figures in the modern European intellectual tradition. Their thought has profoundly influenced most of the major schools of contemporary philosophy and social theory, including phenomenology, existentialism, Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and hermeneutics.The Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty provides a balanced portrait of the intellectual relationship between these two men. Essays by leading scholars as well as selections from the primary texts of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir address the numerous points of contact and cover the major themes of the debate from the different periods in their shared history. A biographical overview introduces the work and provides a context for the theoretical issues taken up in the articles, and an extensive bibliography suggests further readings to supplement the selections included in the volume.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBiographical OverviewOriginal Sources of the Essays1Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the "Hole in Being"12For-Itself and In-Itself in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty163Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: The Case for a Modified Essentialism254On Ontology and Politics: A Polemic365Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre's Philosophy: An Interpretative Account486Phenomenology, Consciousness, and Freedom677The Existence of Alter Egos: Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty868Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: A Reappraisal939Sartre on the Phenomenal Body and Merleau-Ponty's Critique12110Touch and Vision: Rethinking with Merleau-Ponty Sartre on the Caress14411The Body and the Book: Reading Being and Nothingness15412Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Human Freedom17513Freedom: Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre18714Merleau-Ponty's Criticisms of Sartre's Theory of Freedom19715Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: An Existentialist Quarrel21716Vicissitudes of the Dialectic: From Merleau-Ponty's Adventures of the Dialectic to Sartre's Second Critique23317Merleau-Ponty and the Critique of Dialectical Reason27018Sartre and Merleau-Ponty27919The Aesthetic Dialogue of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty29320Situation and Temporality31521Philosophy and Political Engagement: Letters from the Quarrel between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty32722Sartre and Ultrabolshevism (from Adventures of the Dialectic)35523Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism44824The Philosophy of Existence49225Introduction to Signs50426Interrogation and Dialectic (from The Visible and the Invisible)51827Merleau-Ponty vivant565Bibliography: Works on the Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty627Notes on Contributors631
