A Prosa Do Mundo

The work that Maurice Merleau-Ponty planned to call *The Prose of the World,* or *Introduction to the Prose of the World,* was unfinished at the time of his death. The book was to constitute the first section of a two-part work whose aim was to offer, as an extension of his Phenomenology of Perception, a theory of truth. This edition's editor, Claude Lefort, has interpreted and transcribed the surviving typescript, reproducing Merleau-Ponty's own notes and adding documentation and commentary.