"Originally published in French as Psychologie et pedagogie de l'enfant: Cours de Sorbonne 1949-1952. Copyright (c) 2001 by Editions Verdier."

MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY (1908-1961), along with Sartre, introduced phenomenology to France. He held the Chair of Child Psychology and Pedagogy at the Sorbonne from 1949 to 1952. He then became a professor of philosophy at the Collège de France.

TALIA WELSH is Associate U.C. Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.