![]() ![]() The first part of the book, called "Arts," harks back to Phenomenology of Perception. " and elaborates this insight in a concrete context. , to seek a philosophy which explains the upsurge of reason in a world not of its making. Each essay opens a new perspective on the fondamental insight that "the experience of chaos prompts us to see rationalism in historical perspective. Writte:n 1Nbe:n interest had just brnadened fro1n epistemology and the behavioral sciences to include aesthetics, ethics, political theory, and politics, Sense and Non-Sense is the best introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought, for it bath summarizes his previous insights and gives them their widest range of application. And, indeed, in 1952, this anonymity allowed a break over Sartre's support of the politics of the French Communist Party, without a public scandal. Sartre conjectures that this was an escape-hatch kept ready by Merleau-Ponty in case Sartre's political enthusiasm or incompetence led him to take an ernbarrassing stand. For reasons he kept to himself, Merleau-Ponty never let his name appear with Sartre's on the masthead of Les Temps Modernes. Throughout the Introduction we have supplied the translations of quotations from Sartre. "Merleau-Ponty Vivant," Sartre's moving account of his association with his fellow philosopher which was published in the issue of Les Temps Modernes dedicated to Merleau-Ponty (Nos. 2 Together with Sartre's articles collected in Situations, they display a combination of metaphysics, specificity, and lucidity unique in philosophical literature. The essays collected in Sense and Non-Sense appeared as articles in this and other periodicals between 19 when Merleau-Ponty was in effect editor-in-chief and political director of the journal. Full of enthusiasm they founded Les Temps Modernes. Every social product and every attitudethe most public and the most private-are its illusive incarnation." 1 They would use their systematic philosophies to interpret current cultural and political phenomena without resorting to technical vocabularies and without presupposing a familiarity with the history of philosophy-yet making their readers aware of the philosophical implications of events. If there is a truth, then one must hunt it everywhere. Sartre recalls their attitude: "We would be stalkers of meaning. Now they were eager to test their opposed versions of existential phenornenology in all areas of experience. Sartre's Being and Nothingness had appeared two years before, and Merleau-Ponty was completing bis major philosophical work, Phenomenology of Perception. ![]() ON THE EVE of the Liberation, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty decided to found a journal. Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-8101-0166-1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. First published 1964 by Northwestern University Press. English translation © 1964 by Northwestern University Press. This translation is based upon the revised third edition, issued by Nagel in 1961. Northwestern University Press Evans ton, Illinois 60201 Originally published in French as Sens et non-sens, © 1948 by Les Éditions Nagel. Maurice Merleau-Ponty Translated, with a Preface, by Schrader Maurice Natanson Paul Ricoeur Aron Gurwitsch
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