210419: read somewhere that to understand ‘la nausee’ (nausea) you have to read his philosophy text l’etre et le neante’ (being and...

050519: went to see production of this play last night. independent theatre, performance, company, simple, single set, industrial stage,...

121217: this book becomes more interesting and convincing as it goes- and this is a long book. for me, the application of existential...

210924: exactly what title promises, in two ways, as defined and exhibited by various aspects of our culture, as to its ‘purpose’ in...

110707: i read this as existential romance when i read it in translation, quick, charming, bittersweet, but it is now, reading it in...

Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity

The Being of the Question 180514: later addition. suggest you read appendix 2 before the last several chapters, if not read before....

The Animal World in Merleau-Ponty 190118: sometimes the shorter a work of philosophy the more intense. if you read much usual philosophy...

Galen A. Johnson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael B. Smith (Translator) 241017: this is a great if familiar selection of three important...

Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Imagination 271011: either i have read alot of m-p and his ideas have seeped unconsciously into very depths...

Richard C. McCleary (Translator) 101111: do not know if i should rate this so highly, but i like everything by m-p. this is a collection...

Merleau-Ponty's Ontology Ted Toadvine, Leonard (Translators) Lawlor, John Sallis (Editor) 080719 review of reviews i have given fives: i...

Investigating the First-Person Perspective 100617 first review: this is sort of 'phenomenology for analytic philosophers'. as such it...

A Proposal for the Completion of "The Visible and the Invisible" 121119: third review. i might take up reading this once/year until i...

210318 second reading, two years later, review: reading again, there is actually more or at least 'different' difficulty. at least for me...

Colin Smith(Translator) 210818: this is on my 'read twice or more' shelf. i believe i have read only the first half twice, and that about...

Thomas Baldwin (Editor) 170118: this is a much later addition (3 years/3 more years): i have recently been evaluating 1) what sort, 2)...

140619 much later addition (five years): just revisiting philosophy texts i have given five to over the years, or rather the reviews than...

An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness Forrest Williams (Translator), Robert Kirkpatrick (Translator) 151018: fun evidence of Satre’s...

A Guide for the Perplexed(Guides for the Perplexed) .??? 2000s: this is where i started in philosophy, no excuses, but either he is very...