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Institution and passivity : course notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955) / Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; foreword by Claude Lefort ; text established by Dominique Darmaillacq, Claude Lefort, and Stéphanie Ménasé ; translated from the French by Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophyPublication details: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2010.Description: xxxvi, 276 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780810126886
  • 0810126885
  • 9780810126893
  • 0810126893
  • 40018010624
Uniform titles:
  • Institution, la passivité. English
Contained works:
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961. Institution dans l'histoire personnelle et publique. English
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961. Problème de la passivité, le sommeil, l'inconscient, la mémoire. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 22
LOC classification:
  • B2430.M3763 I5813 2010
Contents:
Institution in personal and public history. Introduction -- Institution and life -- Institution of a feeling -- The institution of a work of art -- Institution of a domain of knowledge -- The field of culture -- Historical institution: particularity and universality -- Summary for Thursday's course: institution in personal and public history -- The problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory. Philosophy and the phenomenon of passivity -- For an ontology of the perceived world -- Sleep -- Perceptual consciousness and imagining consciousness -- Symbolism -- Dreams -- The Freudian unconscious -- Delusions: gradiva -- The case of Dora -- The problem of memory -- Appendix: three notes on the Freudian unconscious -- Summary for Monday's course: the problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory.
Summary: Institution and Passivity is a collection of course notes taken from classes Maurice Merleau‑Ponty taught at the Collège de France in 1954‑1955. This work is philosophically significant as a transitional text in Merleau‑Ponty’s thought, filling in ideas between his earlier works and later works such as The Visible and the Invisible and Signs.
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"Originally published in French as L'Institution-La Passivité: Notes de cours au Collège de France (1954-1955) (Paris: Editions Belin, 2003)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Institution in personal and public history. Introduction -- Institution and life -- Institution of a feeling -- The institution of a work of art -- Institution of a domain of knowledge -- The field of culture -- Historical institution: particularity and universality -- Summary for Thursday's course: institution in personal and public history -- The problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory. Philosophy and the phenomenon of passivity -- For an ontology of the perceived world -- Sleep -- Perceptual consciousness and imagining consciousness -- Symbolism -- Dreams -- The Freudian unconscious -- Delusions: gradiva -- The case of Dora -- The problem of memory -- Appendix: three notes on the Freudian unconscious -- Summary for Monday's course: the problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory.

Institution and Passivity is a collection of course notes taken from classes Maurice Merleau‑Ponty taught at the Collège de France in 1954‑1955. This work is philosophically significant as a transitional text in Merleau‑Ponty’s thought, filling in ideas between his earlier works and later works such as The Visible and the Invisible and Signs.

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