Authors: Jon Bartley Stewart
ISBN-13: 9780810115323, ISBN-10: 0810115328
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Date Published: October 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
Biographical Overview | ||
Original Sources of the Essays | ||
1 | Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the "Hole in Being" | 1 |
2 | For-Itself and In-Itself in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty | 16 |
3 | Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: The Case for a Modified Essentialism | 25 |
4 | On Ontology and Politics: A Polemic | 36 |
5 | Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre's Philosophy: An Interpretative Account | 48 |
6 | Phenomenology, Consciousness, and Freedom | 67 |
7 | The Existence of Alter Egos: Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty | 86 |
8 | Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: A Reappraisal | 93 |
9 | Sartre on the Phenomenal Body and Merleau-Ponty's Critique | 121 |
10 | Touch and Vision: Rethinking with Merleau-Ponty Sartre on the Caress | 144 |
11 | The Body and the Book: Reading Being and Nothingness | 154 |
12 | Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Human Freedom | 175 |
13 | Freedom: Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre | 187 |
14 | Merleau-Ponty's Criticisms of Sartre's Theory of Freedom | 197 |
15 | Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: An Existentialist Quarrel | 217 |
16 | Vicissitudes of the Dialectic: From Merleau-Ponty's Adventures of the Dialectic to Sartre's Second Critique | 233 |
17 | Merleau-Ponty and the Critique of Dialectical Reason | 270 |
18 | Sartre and Merleau-Ponty | 279 |
19 | The Aesthetic Dialogue of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty | 293 |
20 | Situation and Temporality | 315 |
21 | Philosophy and Political Engagement: Letters from the Quarrel between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty | 327 |
22 | Sartre and Ultrabolshevism (from Adventures of the Dialectic) | 355 |
23 | Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism | 448 |
24 | The Philosophy of Existence | 492 |
25 | Introduction to Signs | 504 |
26 | Interrogation and Dialectic (from The Visible and the Invisible) | 518 |
27 | Merleau-Ponty vivant | 565 |
Bibliography: Works on the Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty | 627 | |
Notes on Contributors | 631 |