Phenomenology of Perception
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 610
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780415834339
- Utgivelsesår: 2013
- Bidragsyter: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty¿s monumental Ph¿m¿logie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of twentieth-century thought. This new translation, the first for over fifty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers.
Phenomenology of Perception stands in the great phenomenological tradition of Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Yet Merleau-Ponty¿s contribution is decisive, as he brings this tradition and other philosophical predecessors, particularly Descartes and Kant, to confront a neglected dimension of our experience: the lived body and the phenomenal world. Charting a bold course between the reductionism of science on the one hand and intellectualism on the other, Merleau-Ponty argues that we shou