Institution and Passivity: Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955)

by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Biblioth que Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection connects the issue of passive constitution of meaning with the dimension of history, furthering discussions and completing arguments started in The Visible and the Invisible and Signs (both published by Northwestern). Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey's translation makes available to an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007DAIRXW
• ISBN13: 9780810126893
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"