Jean-Paul Sartre (1936), L’Imagination. Paris, Alcan (Nouvelle Encyclopédie Philosophique)

Abstract

The following translation corresponds to the review that Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote about L'Imagination, a work by Jean-Paul Sartre published in 1936. This review was published in the XXXIII edition of the prestigious Journal de Psychologie normale et pathologique, and included in Merleau-Ponty's posthumous text Parcours: 1935-1951, published in 1997 by the Parisian editorial Verdier. There it appears under the name «Compte-rendu de L'imagination de J. P. Sartre». The value of this brief review consists in the fact that Merleau-Ponty not only presents a detailed synthesis of the main Sartrean's problems concerning the image and perception, but also offers a point of distance from Sartre's phenomenological perspective, which will allow him to fly over Husserlian genetic phenomenology throughout his philosophical trajectory.