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Number of Pages488 Pages
Publication NamePhenomenology of Perception
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, Movements / Phenomenology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Publication Year1995
TypeTextbook
AuthorMaurice. Merleau-Ponty
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Psychology
SeriesRoutledge Classics Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN95-165035
Reviews'Merleau-Ponty was one of the most substantial French philosophers of the twentieth century.'- Times Literary Supplement
Table Of ContentPreface, 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, PART 1: 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, PART 2: 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, PART 3: BEING-FOR-ITSELF AND BEING-IN-THE-WORLD, 1. The Cogito, 2. Temporality, 3. Freedom, Bibliography, Index.
SynopsisAC/DC: Contemporary Art/Contemporary Designtackles the difficult, traditionally divisive relationship between art and design. Recently, new practices and perspectives in both worlds have surfaced, putting this division under new scrutiny. An overview of the topic which will particularly appeal to students and specialists, this fully illustrated volume is one of the few anthologies to document the dialogue about the crossover between art and design taking place among experts from both fields. These experts include Paola Antonelli, Anthony Dunne, Alexandra Midal, Rick Poynor, Alice Rawsthorn, Paul Ardenne, Diedrich Diederichsen and Hal Foster. The book emerged from a symposium of the same name held in 2007 in Geneva, and is the companion volume to Wouldn't It Be Nice..., published in 2008, which addressed projects that dare to blur that once-impermeable line between art and design., Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perceptionis Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the bodyto 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., In this work Maurice Merleau-Ponty, described as the foremost academic French philosopher of the post-war period, writes on theories of perception.
LC Classification NumberB2430.M3763P4713