Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

Our next meeting will be on 8 October, 5–6.30 UK time.

We will discuss the book up to the end of the “Introduction", i.e. pages 28–65 in the Landes translation.

If you wish to join, please email alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk.

Reading for 25/26

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Landes

We will read the book in fortnightly sessions, starting 24 September 2025.

Meetings by zoom Wednesdays 5pm–6.30 UK time

Provisional dates for Semester 1:

Wednesday 24 September

Wednesday 8 October

Wednesday 22 October 

Wednesday 5 November

Wednesday 19 November

Wednesday 3 Dec (possibly hybrid tbc)

Wednesday17 December

 

We will use Donald A. Landes' translation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge 2012).

At the meeting on 24 September we will discuss the first two sections of the "Introduction", so up to p.27 and MMP’s own preface (p. lxxi-lxxxv).