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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.

Title
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.
Author
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961
Publication
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Lefort, Claude.
  • Darmaillacq, Dominique.
  • Ménasé, Stéphanie
  • Lawlor, Leonard, 1954-
  • Massey, Heath.
Description
xxxvi, 276 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
Uniform Title
  • Institution, la passivité. English
  • Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
Alternative Title
Institution, la passivité.
Subject
  • Phenomenology
  • Ontology
  • Philosophy > History > 19th century
  • Philosophy > History > 20th century
Note
  • "Originally published in French as L'Institution-La Passivité: Notes de cours au Collège de France (1954-1955) (Paris: Editions Belin, 2003)."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780810126886 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0810126885 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780810126893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0810126893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010000279
OCLC
  • 419819792
  • SCSB-10748549
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