by Jon Stewart edited by John McCumber and David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Northwestern University Press, 1998 Paper: 978-0-8101-1532-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6315-7 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1531-6 Library of Congress Classification B2430.S34D36 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 194
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
JON STEWART is an associate research professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. He is the editor of The Hegel Myths and Legends (Northwestern University Press).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Biographical Overview
Original Sources of the Essays
Part 1. Ontology
1. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the "Hole in Being"
Leo Rauch
2. For-Itself and In-Itself in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
John M. Moreland
3. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: The Case for a Modified Essentialism
Colin Smith
4. On Ontology and Politics: A Polemic
James F. Sheridan
5. Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre's Philosophy: An Interpretative Account
Margaret Whitford
Part 2. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity
6. Phenomenology, Consciousness, and Freedom
C. M. T. Hanly
7. The Existence of Alter Egos: Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
François H. Lapointe
8. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: A Reappraisal
Monika Langer
Part 3. The Body
9. Sartre on the Phenomenal Body and Merleau-Ponty's Critique
Martin C. Dillon
10. Touch and Vision: Rethinking with Merleau-Ponty: Sartre on the Caress
Glen A. Mazis
11. The Body and the Book: Reading Being and Nothingness
Joseph S. Catalano
Part 4. Freedom
12. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Human Freedom
John J. Compton
13. Freedom: Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre
Ronald L. Hall
14. Merleau-Ponty's Criticisms of Sartre's Theory of Freedom
Jon Stewart
Part 5. Politics
15. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: An Existentialist Quarrel
Graham Daniels
16. Vicissitudes of the Dialectic: From Merleau-Ponty's Adventures of the Dialectic to Sartre's Second Critique
Ronald Aronson
17. Merleau-Ponty and the Critique of Dialectical Reason
Thomas R. Flynn
18. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Mikel Dufrenne
Part 6. Aesthetics
19. The Aesthetic Dialogue of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Marjorie Grene
20. Situation and Temporality
John O'Neill
Part 7. Primary Texts and Documents
21. Philosophy and Political Engagement: Letters from the Quarrel between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Jon Stewart
22. Sartre and Ultrabolshevism (from Adventures of the the Dialectic)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
23. Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism
Simone de Beauvoir
24. The Philosophy of Existence
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
25. Introduction to Signs
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
26. Interrogation and Dialectic (from The Visible and the Invisible)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
27. Merleau-Ponty vivant
Jean-Paul Sartre
Bibliography: Works on the Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Notes on Contributors
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by Jon Stewart edited by John McCumber and David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Northwestern University Press, 1998 Paper: 978-0-8101-1532-3 eISBN: 978-0-8101-6315-7 Cloth: 978-0-8101-1531-6
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
JON STEWART is an associate research professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. He is the editor of The Hegel Myths and Legends (Northwestern University Press).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Biographical Overview
Original Sources of the Essays
Part 1. Ontology
1. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the "Hole in Being"
Leo Rauch
2. For-Itself and In-Itself in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
John M. Moreland
3. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: The Case for a Modified Essentialism
Colin Smith
4. On Ontology and Politics: A Polemic
James F. Sheridan
5. Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre's Philosophy: An Interpretative Account
Margaret Whitford
Part 2. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity
6. Phenomenology, Consciousness, and Freedom
C. M. T. Hanly
7. The Existence of Alter Egos: Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
François H. Lapointe
8. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: A Reappraisal
Monika Langer
Part 3. The Body
9. Sartre on the Phenomenal Body and Merleau-Ponty's Critique
Martin C. Dillon
10. Touch and Vision: Rethinking with Merleau-Ponty: Sartre on the Caress
Glen A. Mazis
11. The Body and the Book: Reading Being and Nothingness
Joseph S. Catalano
Part 4. Freedom
12. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Human Freedom
John J. Compton
13. Freedom: Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre
Ronald L. Hall
14. Merleau-Ponty's Criticisms of Sartre's Theory of Freedom
Jon Stewart
Part 5. Politics
15. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty: An Existentialist Quarrel
Graham Daniels
16. Vicissitudes of the Dialectic: From Merleau-Ponty's Adventures of the Dialectic to Sartre's Second Critique
Ronald Aronson
17. Merleau-Ponty and the Critique of Dialectical Reason
Thomas R. Flynn
18. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Mikel Dufrenne
Part 6. Aesthetics
19. The Aesthetic Dialogue of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Marjorie Grene
20. Situation and Temporality
John O'Neill
Part 7. Primary Texts and Documents
21. Philosophy and Political Engagement: Letters from the Quarrel between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Jon Stewart
22. Sartre and Ultrabolshevism (from Adventures of the the Dialectic)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
23. Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism
Simone de Beauvoir
24. The Philosophy of Existence
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
25. Introduction to Signs
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
26. Interrogation and Dialectic (from The Visible and the Invisible)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
27. Merleau-Ponty vivant
Jean-Paul Sartre
Bibliography: Works on the Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Notes on Contributors
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