1. This biographical sketch is particularly indebted to Noble 2011. See also Emmanuelle Garcia, “Vie et oeuvre”, in Merleau-Ponty 2010; Geraets 1971; Jean-Paul Sartre, “Merleau-Ponty vivant” (in Stewart 1998).

2. The correspondence between Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir has been published in Beauvoir, Lacoin, and Merleau-Ponty 2022c.

3. These reviews are collected in Parcours 1935–1951 (Merleau-Ponty 1997a). English translations are included in Texts and Dialogues (Merleau-Ponty 1992).

4. The introduction to La Nature ou le monde du silence was published as Merleau-Ponty 2008.

5. A brief inventory of the papers held in the Bibliothèque Nationale is included in Saint Aubert 2004: 344–347.

6. See James Edie’s Foreword and Hugh Silverman’s Translator’s Preface to Merleau-Ponty 1973; Merleau-Ponty 1968/1970, 1988/2010, 2011/2020, 2013, 2020, 2022a, 2022b.

7. A selection of Merleau-Ponty's editorials and other contributions to Les Temps Modernes are included in Merleau-Ponty 2018.

8. An earlier draft of the third chapter, “Interrogation and Intuition”, was subsequently published as “Brouillon d’une rédaction” (Merleau-Ponty 1996a, 355–378).