This page (a work in progress) contains links to online resources helpful to the study of Merlau-Ponty's philosophy. If you have additions to suggest, please email me at davimorr (at) alcor.concordia.ca.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Wikipedia (includes link to other external resources)
I have put together a concordance of the English editions prior to the Routledge Classics 2002; Routledge Classics edition, with the new pagination; the French edition from Gallimard, prior to 2005; the 2e edition from Gallimard, 2005, with new pagination--together with a windows program for searching the concordance. To obtain this, click here.
You can find this via Ted Toadvine's website.
I am the editor for the Merleau-Ponty category at the PhilPapers website, which contains an excellent and growing bibliography of works by and about Merleau-Ponty. If you have written papers on Merleau-Ponty and do not find them listed at PhilPapers, or have an electronic bilbiography of works on Merleau-Ponty, please do upload them to the site. The idea is for scholars to harness this resource as a collaborative resource for finding and communicating work on Merleau-Ponty.
Frequently Asked Questions:
I just entered a bunch of records under the Merleau-Ponty category, but they're not showing up when I look under the Merleau-Ponty category. When browsing a category, look to the options on the right. In viewing options, make sure you have unchecked online only, as this will filter out papers that are not online.
What about works on Merleau-Ponty in languages other than English? At present the PhilPapers site specifies in several places that only works in English should be posted. Searching in the forums suggests that this is a software issue: entry and importation of diacritics, handling of the different ways of listing publishers, etc. seems to be the problem. So, for the moment, it is probably best to just enter works in English; it might be a lot of work to enter works in other languages and then have to go back to fix up their coding. But I think we can push it a bit my entering primary works by Merleau-Ponty in French.
Should I be sending my bibliographic information to you (David Morris) to enter, or enter it myself? Please enter it yourself. The site is supposed to be a collaborative labour. My task as editor is to encourage entries, check to make sure that entries that users have categorized under the Merleau-Ponty category make sense categorized as such for the audience of Merleau-Ponty scholars. I can help or advise you with issues of converting databases you may have to import them into PhilPapers, e.g., see below on EndNote.
I just entered a number of works by me, but I'm not seeing them in my profile. In PhilPapers, you have to make sure that works listed by you are linked to your profile. This can happen automatically when you set up an account; PhilPapers tries to do a match by name. Works by you are displayed in the "My works" section; to see this, click on "My Profile" in the top menu, and then click on “What can others see?” link on the left hand side toward the bottom on your profile page. You may also need to disambiguate works that are listed under variants of your name, e.g., with or without a middle initial. You can use the "My works" section to search for works by you to link to your profile or to do a batch import to link to your profile.
How do I upload data from EndNote to PhilPapers? Select the records you wish to export and export them using this EndNote style, which outputs RefMan RIS formatted text. Then check the output text by opening it in NotePad or another text editor and looking for obvious problems; I've found that EndNote often outputs two garbage characters at the very beginning of the file. Once you've checked, do a batch import at the PhilPapers site, selecting ReferenceManager (RIS) as the format (specifying to upload them under the existing Merleau-Ponty category in the case of works about Merleau-Ponty.
There are articles listed on PhilPapers that I want to retrieve online through my university's journal subscriptions. How can I do this quickly? Two solutions so far: 1) Use PhilPaper's built in facility for configuring off campus access. See the box on the right hand side of pages that list entries. 2) Set up FireFox to help with this process. a) Install the following FireFox addon: Add to Search Bar. b) Navigate to the page at your university library where your library would let you search for a journal by title (mine is here). c) Right click on the field where you would enter the journal title, and select "Add to search bar," giving the search an apropriate title, e.g., Concordia Journals. d) Select the search engine you have just named from the dropdown list in the top right hand corner of FireFox. e) In PhilPapers, when you browse to an article you want to find, highlight the text, right click, and tell FireFox to search, e.g., Concordia Journals. This will open up a tab with the search results, and you can then browse the journal as you normally would through your library. You can then search for the title of the paper in the journal.
Phenomenology of Perception (Google Books), Phenomenology of Perception (Amazon)
The Visible and the Invisible (Google Books)
Sense and Non-Sense (Google Books)
Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language (Google Books)
Chiasmi International- Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Maurice
Merleau-Ponty