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Encounters between Analytic and Continental PhilosophyWas There a Sun before Men Existed?: Ayer, Sartre, Bataille, and Merleau-Ponty

Encounters between Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Was There a Sun before Men Existed?:... [‘Georges Bataille, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Alfred Jules Ayer walk into a bar.’ This may at first appear to be the opening line of a joke. But Georges Bataille records in his lecture ‘Les conséquences du non-savoir’ (delivered on the day following the event in question) that a meeting between these three philosophers took place on 11 January, 1951, in a Parisian bar. This was preceded by a (hitherto unpublished) lecture presented by Ayer titled ‘The Idea of Truth and Contemporary Logic’. Among the audience of the lecture were Bataille himself, Merleau-Ponty, as well as the physicist Georges Ambrosino and the philosopher Jean Wahl.1 Bataille reports having met Ayer, presumably at the bar while having a drink following the lecture, and having sustained, through ‘reciprocal interest’ (1986, p. 80), a conversation that continued until three o’ clock in the morning. According to Bataille, Merleau-Ponty and Ambrosino had also taken part in the conversation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Encounters between Analytic and Continental PhilosophyWas There a Sun before Men Existed?: Ayer, Sartre, Bataille, and Merleau-Ponty

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-45045-9
Pages
87 –109
DOI
10.1057/9781137290205_4
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[‘Georges Bataille, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Alfred Jules Ayer walk into a bar.’ This may at first appear to be the opening line of a joke. But Georges Bataille records in his lecture ‘Les conséquences du non-savoir’ (delivered on the day following the event in question) that a meeting between these three philosophers took place on 11 January, 1951, in a Parisian bar. This was preceded by a (hitherto unpublished) lecture presented by Ayer titled ‘The Idea of Truth and Contemporary Logic’. Among the audience of the lecture were Bataille himself, Merleau-Ponty, as well as the physicist Georges Ambrosino and the philosopher Jean Wahl.1 Bataille reports having met Ayer, presumably at the bar while having a drink following the lecture, and having sustained, through ‘reciprocal interest’ (1986, p. 80), a conversation that continued until three o’ clock in the morning. According to Bataille, Merleau-Ponty and Ambrosino had also taken part in the conversation.]

Published: Nov 5, 2015

Keywords: Logical Positivist; Vienna Circle; German Philosopher; French Philosopher; Continental Philosophy

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