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sentient_meat's review
5.0
It is rare that one encounters a work of philosophy that one loves just about every sentence of, but Merleau-Ponty's The Prose of the World, for me, is just that work of philosophy. Merleau-Ponty's exploration of linguistics the diachronic and synchronic nature of language, the phenomenology of speech, communication and expression, intersubjectivity, and ultimately his gestures towards his late ontology (explicated more fully in The Visible and the Invisible) are a fascinating read for anyone interested in philosophy of language. If the work suffers at all, it is in that it was never completed. While Merleau-Ponty had abandoned the work to concentrate on The Visible and the Invisible, editor Claude Lefort maintains (and I think it is fair to say) that Merleau-Ponty would have re-visited the themes; either in The Visible and Invisible or in The Prose of the World had he not passed away suddenly.
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