Phenomenology of perception
by
 
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Title
Phenomenology of perception

Author
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

ISBN
9780415278409
 
9780415278416

Personal Author
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Publication Information
London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Physical Description
xxiv, 544 pages ; 20 cm.

Series
Routledge classics
 
Routledge classics.

Contents
Introduction: Traditional Prejudices and the Return to Phenomena -- 1. The 'Sensation' as a Unit of Experience -- 2. 'Association' and the 'Projection of Memories' -- 3. 'Attention' and 'Judgement' -- 4. The Phenomenal Field -- pt. I. The Body -- Experience and Objective Thought. The Problem of the Body -- 1. The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology -- 2. The Experience of the Body and Classical Psychology -- 3. The Spatiality of One's own Body and Motility -- 4. The Synthesis of One's own Body -- 5. The Body in its Sexual Being -- 6. The Body as Expression, and Speech -- pt. II. The World as Perceived -- The Theory of the Body is already a Theory of Perception -- 1. Sense Experience -- 2. Space -- 3. The Thing and the Natural World -- 4. Other Selves and the Human World -- pt. III. Being-for-Itself and Being-in-the-World -- 1. The Cogito -- 2. Temporality -- 3. Freedom.

Abstract
With Sartre, Merleau-Ponty was the foremost French philosopher of the post-war period. What makes this work so important is that it returned the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato.

Subject Term
Phenomenology.
 
Perception (Philosophy)
 
Perception (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01057637
 
Phenomenology. (OCoLC)fst01060522
 
Waarneming.
 
Fenomenologie.
 
Persepsjon.
 
Fenomenologi.
 
Phénoménologie.
 
Perception (philosophie)

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