Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
SERIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT
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Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
JUDITH WAMBACQ
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
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The author would like to thank the publishers for permission to reprint from the following previously published material, which the author has reworked for this book:
“Proust’s Artistic Ontology: A Comparison of Merleau-Ponty’s and Deleuze’s Readings of Proust’s Recherche.” Relief 7, no. 2 (2013): 139–48.
“Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Criticism of Bergson’s Theory of Time Seen through the Work of Gilles Deleuze.” Studia Phaenomenologica 11 (2011): 309–25.
“Depth and Time in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.” Chiasmi International 13 (2011): 327–48.
“Het differentiële gehalte van Merleau-Ponty’s ontologie.” Tijdschrift voor filosofie 70, no. 3 (2008): 479–508.
The author has acquired permission for quoting from the following books:
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible. Originally published in French under the title Le visible et l’invisible. Copyright © 1964 by Gallimard, Paris. English translation copyright © 1968 by Northwestern University Press. First printing 1968. All rights reserved.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception. Originally published in French under the title Phénoménologie de la perception. Copyright © 1945 by Gallimard, Paris. English translation copyright © 1962 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., now Taylor & Francis Group. First printing 1962. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wambacq, Judith, author.
Title: Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty / Judith Wambacq.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: Series in Continental thought ; No. 51 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017043822| ISBN 9780821422878 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446126 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995. | Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
Classification: LCC B2430.D454 W36 2017 | DDC 194--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017043822
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CONTENTS
1. The Arepresentational Conception of Thinking Thought in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze