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In a letter dated February 2, 1972, Hannah Arendt confided, in passing, to Heidegger: “In the course of the last weeks, I took a break and read Merleau-Ponty, whom you know well, for the first time. To me, he seems to be much better and more interesting than Sartre. Don’t you think so, too?”
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The German sentence reads “Merleau-Ponty war auf dem Weg von Husserl zu Heidegger.”
The original poem reads: Dank/Gelassen gehören der rufenden Eignis, / rufend den Weg vor die Ortschaft/ des fugsamen Denkens/gegen sich selber —/verhaltenes Ver-Hältnis.//Armselig verwahrt ein Geringes/ ungesprochen Vermächtnis:/Sagen `A, 17, 19eta/Nennen die Lichtung:/Entbergen den Vorenhalt /alter Befugnis/aus währendem An-Fang. Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, Briefe 1925 bis 1975: und andere Zeugnisse. Ursula Ludz., ed., (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1999), 227. [Translation by translators and the volume editor. — Ed.]
Cf. “Topology of Being,” in Martin Heidegger, Aus der Erfahrung des Denkens (Pfullingen: G. Neske, 1954), 23; Heidegger, Wegmarken ( Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1967 ), 240.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible trans. Alphonso Lingis (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968), 36; cited in Arendt, 49.
Merleau-Ponty, Signs, trans. Richard McCleary (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964 ), 174.
Merleau-Ponty, Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France 1952–1960,trans. John O’Neill (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970), 105; translation modified.
Merleau-Ponty, Notes des Cours 1959–1961. Préface de Claude Lefort (Paris: Gallimard, 1996), 67. All translations of this text are by the translators.
Merleau-Ponty, Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France 1952–1960,106.
Edmund Husserl, Krisis III, 173; cited in Merleau-Ponty, Notes des Cours 1959–1961,81.
Merleau-Ponty, Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France 1952–1960,85.
Merleau-Ponty, Notes des Cours 1959–1961,91.
Merleau-Ponty, Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France 1952–1960,109, translation modified.
Merleau-Ponty, Notes des Cours 1959–1961,92; Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France 1952–1960,109.
Merleau-Ponty, Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France 1952–1960,109.
Merleau-Ponty, Notes des Cours 1959–1961,93.
Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000 ), 35.
Heidegger, The Principle of Reason, trans. R. Lilly ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991 ), 51.
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Taminiaux, J. (2002). Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Heidegger. In: Babich, B.E. (eds) Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol 225. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1767-0_21
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