Signs

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Author)

9780810102538

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1964

355 pages
22.8 x 14.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.547 kg

Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole."
Thus does Maurice Merleau-Ponty describe speech in this collection of his important writings on the philosophy of expression, composed during the last decade of his life. For him, expression is a category of human behavior and existence much broader than language alone. He maintains that man is essentially expressive, even prior to speaking: in his silence, gestures, and lived behavior.