The Visible and the Invisible

338 Pages·1969·6.559 MB·English

by  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Northwestern University
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Existential Philosophy
G E N E R A L E D I T O R
John Wild.
A S S O C I A T E E D I T O R
James M. Edie
C O N S U L T I N G E D I T O R S
Herbert Spiegelberg
William Earle
George A. Schrader
Maurice Natanson
Paul Ricoeur
Aron Gurwitsch
Calvin O. Schrag

The Visible and the Invisible
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Edited by Claude Lefort
Translated by Alphonso Lingis
The Visible and
the Invisible
FOLLOWED BY W O RK IN G NOTES
N o r t h w e st e r n U n iv e r s it y P ress
1968 EVANSTON
Northwestern University Press
www.nupress.northwestern.edu
Le Visible et l'invisible.
Originally published in French under the title
Copyright © 1964 by Editions Gallimard, Paris. English translation copyright ©
1968 by Northwestern University Press. First printing 1968.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-0457-0
isbn-io: 0-8101-0457-1
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Permission has been granted to quote from
Being and Nothingness,
Jean-Paul Sartre, trans. Hazel E. Barnes
(New York: The Philosophical Library, 1956).
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requirements of the American National Standard for Information
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Contents
Editor’s Foreword / xi
Editorial Note / xxxiv
Translatofs Preface / xl
The Visible and the Invisible: Philosophical
Interrogation
i Reflection and Interrogation / 3
a Interrogation and Dialectic / 50
3 Interrogation and Intuition / 105
4 The Intertwining—The Chiasm / 130
5 [appendix] Preobjective Being: The Solipsist
World / 156
Working Notes / 165
Index / 377
Chronological Index to Working Notes / 279