Essence and Language. The Rupture in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
Essence and Language. The Rupture in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: What I am going to present here is recent issues in research on Merleau- Ponty’s philosophy. Over the last eight years, there have been a lot of developments. In 1995, one of Merleau-Ponty’s lecture courses from the Collège de France in 1956-57, La Nature, was published.1 Then in 1996, his Notes de cours from 1959 to 1961 was published.2 And finally, in 1998, the notes to Merleau-Ponty’s final course at the Collège de France, which was on the later Husserl, in particular, on “The Origin of Geometry” and on the text frequently referred to as “The Earth Does Not Move.”3 These publications have given us a much better idea of how to understand Merleau-Ponty’s later philosophy, and, in particular, of how to understand his incomplete masterpiece The Visible and the Invisible

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