Maurice Merleau-Ponty : basic writings

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Author:

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

ISBN:

9780415315876

9780415315869

Personal Author:

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Uniform Title:

Selections. English. 2003

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Physical Description:

x, 362 p.; 22 cm.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Merleau-Ponty's Prospectus of his Work -- Pt. 2. Selections from The Structure of Behavior -- Higher Forms of Behavior -- The Physical Order; The Vital Order; The Human Order -- Pt. 3. Selections from The Phenomenology of Perception -- The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology -- The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motility -- Sense-experience -- The Thing and the Natural World -- Other Selves and the Human World -- The Cogito -- Freedom -- Pt. 4. Selection from The Prose of the World -- The Algorithm and the Mystery of Language -- Pt. 5. Selection from The Visible and the Invisible -- The Intertwining - The Chiasm -- Pt. 6. Painting -- Cezanne's Doubt -- Eye and Mind -- Pt. 7. History -- The Crisis of Understanding.

Subject Term:

Existential phenomenology.

Added Author:

Baldwin, Thomas, 1947-

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Summary

Merleau-Ponty was a pivotal figure in twentieth century French philosophy. He was responsible for bringing the phenomenological methods of the German philosophers - Husserl and Heidegger - to France and instigated a new wave of interest in this approach. His influence extended well beyond the boundaries of philosophy and can be seen in theories of politics, psychology, art and language.
This is the first volume to bring together a comprehensive selection of Merleau-Ponty's writing.
Sections from the following are included:
The Primacy of Perception
The Structure of Behaviour
The Phenomenology of Perception
The Prose of the World
The Visible and the Invisible
Sense and Non-Sense
The Adventures of the DialecticIn a substantial critical introduction Thomas Baldwin provides a critical discussion of the main themes of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, connecting it to subsequent philosophical debates and setting it in the context of the ideas of Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. Each text is also prefaced with an explanation which sets it in its context in Merleau-Ponty's work; and there are extensive suggestions for further reading to enable students to pursue the issues raised by Merleau-Ponty. Thus the book provides the ideal materials for students studying Merleau-Ponty for the first time.