Institution and Passivity Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955) |
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| Author:
| Merleau-Ponty, Maurice |
| Translator:
| Lawlor, Leonard
Massey, Heath |
| Foreword by:
| Lefort, Claude |
| Series title: | Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-2689-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection connects the issue of passive constitution of meaning with the dimension of history, furthering discussions and completing arguments started in The Visible and the Invisible and Signs (both published by Northwestern). Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey's translation makes available to an English-speaking...
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Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection connects the issue of passive constitution of meaning with the dimension of history, furthering discussions and completing arguments started in The Visible and the Invisible and Signs (both published by Northwestern). Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey's translation makes available to an English-speaking readership a critical transitional text in the history of phenomenology.