title: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy (Studies in Continental Thought)
author:  Lawrence Hass 
description: [T]his ambitious text is well worth reading. . . Toadvine offers a bold, yet carefully constructed reading of the early ontology oriented by Merleau-Pontys later self-evaluations of it.Winter 2010 (<i>Environmental Ethics</i>)<br /><br />. . . a valuable contribution to scholarship bridging analytic and Continental concerns. . . . clear and largely jargon-free. . . . Recommended.January 2009 (<i>Choice</i>)<br /><br />[T]his is one of the few [Merleau-Ponty books] that is genuinely important.Volume 15, Issue 2, Fall/Automne 2011 (<i>Symposium</i>)
zlib_text: Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006
  taylor carman and mark b. n. hansen
  Introduction
  Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most original and important
  philosophers of the past century. Yet in many ways the full scope of
  his contribution is becoming clear only now, more than forty years
  after his death. His impact on philosophy, psychology, and criticism
  has been enormous, although his intellectual reputation was initially
  somewhat overshadowed – first by the greater notoriety of his friend
  Jean-Paul Sartre and then by structuralism and poststructuralism in
  the latter half of the century. As a result, in part due to his prema-
  ture death, Merleau-Ponty’s presence in contemporary intellectual
  life has remained strangely elusive. His influence has cut across dis-
  ciplinary boundaries, yet it has tended to move beneath the surface
  of mainstream scholarly and popular intellectual discourse.
  As a result, perhaps understandably, academic and nonacademic
  readers alike