Download or read book Institution and Passivity written by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection connects the issue of passive constitution of meaning with the dimension of history, furthering discussions and completing arguments started in The Visible and the Invisible and Signs (both published by Northwestern). Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey’s translation makes available to an English-speaking readership a critical transitional text in the history of phenomenology.