Notes
Cf. in his Zaharoff Lecture for (1963), which was published as Sens et existence dans la philosophie de Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1963), Jean Hyppolite remarked in the first paragraph of his lecture: “La philosophie de Merleau-Ponty est une méditation sur cette connexion intime de l’existence et du sens.” In a footnote on the title of his lecture, Hyppolite noted: “L’existence, c’est-a-dire le monde et sens habitants, et non pas le sujet et l’objet d’une théorie de la connaissance; le sense, c’est-a-dire ce qui est en question dans ces rapports d’existence.” Here I cannot resist mentioning the title of Viktor E. Frankl’s work (1984) Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy (Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager, 1959) where he spoke of the “rehumanization of psychotherapy” or psychotherapy with a human face.
It is no accident that Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind, vol. 1: Thinking (1971) has references to Merleau-Ponty and as far as I know nowhere else in her writings she has references to Merleau-Ponty.
The importance of this passage is found and discussed in Renaud Barbaras’s The Being of the Phenomenon: Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology (2004; the French original, 1991), in chap. “Fact and Essence: Phenomenology,” pp. 87–110.
This essay was presented at the 1981 Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Northwestern University, October 29–31. As I recalled, Cal Schrag came to the vigorous defense of my theses in the discussion period.
Cf. Viktor E. Frankl (1984). Its original title was From Death-Camp to Existentialism in which Frankl was fond of quoting Nietzsche: “He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.” Frankl writes (p. 134): “Freedom is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness.”
See Richard I. Sugarman and Roger B. Duncan (eds.), The Promise of Phenomenology: Posthumous Papers of John Wild (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006), “The Rights of the Other as Other” (pp. 159–168) and “The Other Person: Some Phenomenological Reflections” (pp. 169–181). See also John Wild, “Speaking Philosophy: John Wild’s Commentary on [Levinas’] Totality and Infinity,” edited and annotated by Richard I. Sugarman, Phenomenological Inquiry, 24 (2000: 205–292). It is reprinted with an explanatory note in Sugarman and Duncan (eds.) (2006: 183–250).
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Jung, H.Y. Personal and philosophical reflections on John Wild. Cont Philos Rev 44, 267–274 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-011-9187-4
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