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Review Articles REVIEW ARTICLES "One More New Botched Beginning"1 Maurice Merleau-Ponty. La Prose du Monde, ed. Claude Lefort. Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1969. 211 pages. We are besieged today with philosophical reflections on the nature of language. In all parts of the world philosophers are engaged in the analysis of language: using words to try to overcome the problems which words, speaking, and language pose. Phenomenology is no alien to this complex problematic and the French school has been in- creasingly active in this sphere. Paul Ricoeur has even suggested that language, especially in France, has become the central concern of phenomenology.2 2 A recent entrant into this discussion is La Prose du Monde, 3 the latest of the posthumous publications of Merleau-Ponty.4 With the same tenacity of argument and use of figurative language that became his trademarks, he takes up the problems of language, delving into several widely scattered areas of human activity in order to describe and to understand the dynamics of human expression: all this with a 'This title is taken from a poem by Stephen Spender which is based in part on his memories of Merleau-Ponty. Selected Poems (New York: Random House, 1964), pp 80-81. 2Paul Ricoeur, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Research in Phenomenology Brill

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Jacobson, Paul
Research in Phenomenology , Volume 2 (1): 143 – Jan 1, 1972
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© 1972 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0085-5553
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1569-1640
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10.1163/156916472X00081
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REVIEW ARTICLES "One More New Botched Beginning"1 Maurice Merleau-Ponty. La Prose du Monde, ed. Claude Lefort. Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1969. 211 pages. We are besieged today with philosophical reflections on the nature of language. In all parts of the world philosophers are engaged in the analysis of language: using words to try to overcome the problems which words, speaking, and language pose. Phenomenology is no alien to this complex problematic and the French school has been in- creasingly active in this sphere. Paul Ricoeur has even suggested that language, especially in France, has become the central concern of phenomenology.2 2 A recent entrant into this discussion is La Prose du Monde, 3 the latest of the posthumous publications of Merleau-Ponty.4 With the same tenacity of argument and use of figurative language that became his trademarks, he takes up the problems of language, delving into several widely scattered areas of human activity in order to describe and to understand the dynamics of human expression: all this with a 'This title is taken from a poem by Stephen Spender which is based in part on his memories of Merleau-Ponty. Selected Poems (New York: Random House, 1964), pp 80-81. 2Paul Ricoeur,

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