Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato. Drawing on case studies such as brain-damaged patients from the First World War, Merleau-Ponty brilliantly shows how the body plays a crucial role not only in perception but in speech, sexuality and our relation to others. Perhaps above all, Merleau-Ponty's insights about the embodied mind are a bold and refreshing challenge to the new era of virtual reality and artificial intelligence, as scientists and psychologists discover the centrality of the body to mind and intelligence.

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Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) (Volume 85)

Phénoménologie de la perception

by M. Merleau-Ponty; translated from the French by Colin Smith

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

International library of philosophy and scientific method, London ; New York, 1962

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, New York, England, 1962

London, United Kingdom, 1999

January 13, 1995

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Originally published: 1962.
Includes bibliography and index.
Translation of: Phénoménologie de la perception.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-462) and index.

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 22
I THE ‘SENSATION’ AS A UNIT OF EXPERIENCE......Page 23
2 ‘ASSOCIATION’ AND THE ‘PROJECTION OF MEMORIES’......Page 32
3 ‘ATTENTION’ AND ‘JUDGEMENT’......Page 44
4 THE PHENOMENAL FIELD......Page 67
PART ONE The Body......Page 78
Experience and objective thought. The problem of the body......Page 79
I THE BODY AS OBJECT AND MECHANISTIC PHYSIOLOGY......Page 84
2 THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BODY AND CLASSICAL PSYCHOLOGY......Page 99
3 THE SPATIALITY OF ONE’S OWN BODY AND MOTILITY......Page 106
4 THE SYNTHESIS OF ONE’S OWN BODY......Page 152
5 THE BODY IN ITS SEXUAL BEING......Page 158
6 THE BODY AS EXPRESSION, AND SPEECH......Page 177
PART TWO The World as Perceived......Page 201
The theory of the body is already a theory of perception......Page 202
1 SENSE EXPERIENCE......Page 206
2 SPACE......Page 239
3 THE THING AND THE NATURAL WORLD......Page 289
4 OTHER SELVES AND THE HUMAN WORLD......Page 331
PART THREE Being-for-Itself and Being-in-the-World......Page 349
1 THE COGITO......Page 350
2 TEMPORALITY......Page 386
3 FREEDOM......Page 408
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 429
INDEX......Page 434

Phenomenology is the study of essences; and according to it, all problems amount to finding definitions of essences; the essence of perception, or the essence of consciousness, for example. But phenomenology is also a philosophy which puts essences back into existence, and does not expect to arrive at an understanding of man and the world from any starting point other than that of their 'facticity'

Our perception ends in objects, and the object once constituted, appears as the reason for all the experiences of it which we have had or could have.

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