On Merleau-Ponty, Paperback by Sartre, Jean-Paul; Turner, Chris (TRN), Like N...

On Merleau-Ponty, Paperback by Sartre, Jean-Paul; Turner, Chris (TRN), ISBN 0857429086, ISBN-13 9780857429087, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US<b>A moving tribute to phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the wake of his early death.</b><br><br> Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most incisive philosophical, cultural, and literary critical essays in twelve newly designed and affordable editions.<br> &#160;<br> This volume consists of a single long essay that analyzes the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908&#8211;1961), who was the leading phenomenological philosopher in France and the lead editor of the influential leftist journal <i>Les Temps modernes</i>, which he established with Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945. Written in the wake of Merleau-Ponty&#8217;s death, this essay is a moving tribute from one major philosopher to another.<br> &#160;