Résumés de cours - Collège de France 1952-1960

One of fifty-one copies on pure vellum, the only large paper printed.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's lectures were not written in advance. The notes he used, whether abundant or succinct, only provided him with support. This support never exempted him from the risk of having to think in front of others. Sometimes he strayed from it to the point of forgetting it.
These summaries were written by Merleau-Ponty himself. They say everything they can say: the variety and rigor of the questions that governed the courses, and their virtue of nourishing works that were being developed at the same time - the Introduction à la prose du monde, Le visible et l'invisible.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Born in Rochefort in 1908, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a former student at the École Normale Supérieure, agrégé in philosophy, doctor of letters in 1945, professor at the Sorbonne, then at the Collège de France since 1952, died in 1961. He was a member of the steering committee of Les Temps modernes since their founding.