Institution and passivity
Subtitle: course notes at the College de France (1954-1955)
By: Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; foreword by Claude Lefort ; text established by Dominique Darmaillacq, Claude Lefort, and Stephanie Menase ; translated by Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey.
Contributors: Lefort, Claude.; Darmaillacq, Dominique.; Ménasé, Stéphanie.; Lawlor, Leonard, 1954-; Massey, Heath.; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
Series: Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy; Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780810126886; 9780810126893
Subjects: Phenomenology; Ontology; Philosophy -- History -- 19th century; Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
Work titles: Institution, la passivité.
Notes: "Originally published in French as L'Institution-La Passivité: Notes de cours au College de France (1954-1955) (Paris: Editions Belin, 2003)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Institution in personal and public history. Introduction; title: Institution and life; title: Institution of a feeling; title: The institution of a work of art; title: Institution of a domain of knowledge; title: The field of culture; title: Historical institution: particularity and universality; title: Summary for Thursday's course: Institution in personal and public history; title: The problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory. The philosophy and the phenomenon of passivity; title: For an ontology of the perceived world; title: Sleep; title: Perceptual consciousness and imagining consciousness; title: Symbolism; title: Dreams; title: The Freudian unconscious; title: Delusions: gradiva; title: The case of Dora; title: The problem of memory; title: Appendix: three notes on the Freudian unconscious; title: Summary for Monday's course: the problem of passivity: sleep, the unconscious, memory.