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.

The Sensible World and the World of Expression reveals Merleau-Ponty at the pivot point of his entire philosophy, where his phenomenology of movement, expression, and the body schema begins deepening into his later themes of language, art, institutions, and history and leading him toward an ontology that would grasp meaning at work in the visible world, nature, and being itself. Bryan Smyth's careful translation, introduction, and notes provide an invaluable entry into a key moment of Merleau-Ponty's thought."- David Morris, author of Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology“To Merleau-Ponty, lecturing at the College de France represented a remarkable opportunity to pursue philosophical research. And yet, given his sudden death, this research never developed into a polished manuscript, transforming these lecture courses into the traces of his nascent phenomenological ontology. Thanks to this lucid and scholarly translation of the first course, Bryan Smyth has made a lasting contribution to Merleau-Ponty scholarship that provides new insights into Merleau-Ponty’s unfinished work on perception and expression.”- Donald A. Landes, author of Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression and translator of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception

• AcknowledgementsTranslator’s IntroductionNote on the TranslationTypographical InformationI. Preparatory Lecture NotesFirst LectureSecond lectureThird lectureFourth lectureFifth lectureSixth lectureSeventh lectureEighth lectureNinth lectureTenth lectureEleventh lectureTwelfth lectureThirteenth lectureFourteenth lectureII. Working Notes NotesBibliographyIndex

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.

The Sensible World and the World of Expression reveals Merleau-Ponty at the pivot point of his entire philosophy, where his phenomenology of movement, expression, and the body schema begins deepening into his later themes of language, art, institutions, and history and leading him toward an ontology that would grasp meaning at work in the visible world, nature, and being itself. Bryan Smyth's careful translation, introduction, and notes provide an invaluable entry into a key moment of Merleau-Ponty's thought."- David Morris, author of Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology“To Merleau-Ponty, lecturing at the College de France represented a remarkable opportunity to pursue philosophical research. And yet, given his sudden death, this research never developed into a polished manuscript, transforming these lecture courses into the traces of his nascent phenomenological ontology. Thanks to this lucid and scholarly translation of the first course, Bryan Smyth has made a lasting contribution to Merleau-Ponty scholarship that provides new insights into Merleau-Ponty’s unfinished work on perception and expression.”- Donald A. Landes, author of Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression and translator of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception

• AcknowledgementsTranslator’s IntroductionNote on the TranslationTypographical InformationI. Preparatory Lecture NotesFirst LectureSecond lectureThird lectureFourth lectureFifth lectureSixth lectureSeventh lectureEighth lectureNinth lectureTenth lectureEleventh lectureTwelfth lectureThirteenth lectureFourteenth lectureII. Working Notes NotesBibliographyIndex