MAURICE MERLEAU‑PONTY (1908–1961) is the author of Adventures of the Dialectic, Child Psychology and Pedagogy, Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language, In Praise of Philosophy,Institution and Passivity, Nature, The Primacy of Perception, The Prose of the World, Sense and Non‑Sense, Signs, and The Visible and the Invisible, all published by Northwestern University Press.
BRYAN SMYTH is a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Mississippi and the author of Merleau-Ponty’s Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy.