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.