Merleau-Ponty’s late lecture course on Heidegger is primarily concerned with probing the possibility of a phenomenological ontology. Merleau-Ponty’s lectures provide a rather straightforward presentation of Heidegger’s later thought, without elaborate commentary or criticism. However, Merleau-Ponty does favor Heidegger’s later move toward an indirect expression of Being but does not think that he consistently maintains this view. By the time that we reach the end of Merleau-Ponty’s lecture course, we begin to see a number of differences between the two philosophers come into play, with Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy solving more problems than that of his German counterpart.

梅洛-庞蒂关于海德格尔的后期课程主要关注探索现象学本体论的可能性。梅洛-庞蒂的讲座对海德格尔后来的思想进行了相当直接的介绍，没有详细的评论或批评。然而，梅洛-庞蒂确实赞成海德格尔后来对存在的间接表达的举动，但并不认为他始终坚持这一观点。到梅洛-庞蒂的讲座结束时，我们开始看到两位哲学家之间的许多差异开始发挥作用，梅洛-庞蒂的哲学比他的德国同行解决了更多的问题。