Title:
Phenomenology of perception
Author:
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
ISBN:
9780415278409
9780415278416
Personal Author:
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.
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