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    Title
    Phenomenology of Perception
    Subtitle
    An Introduction
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 576
    Width: 129 mm
    Height: 198 mm
    Thickness: 43 mm
    Weight: 793 g
    Audience
    Professional and scholarly
    General/trade
    College/higher education
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780415278416
    ISBN 10: 0415278414
    Classifications
    BIC time period qualifier: 3JJP
    Dewey: 142.7
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S2.1
    LC classification: B
    BISAC category code: PHI000000
    Dewey: 142.7
    BISAC category code: PHI018000
    Edition
    2, Revised
    Edition statement
    2nd Revised edition
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis Ltd
    Imprint name
    ROUTLEDGE
    Publication date
    03 May 2002
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Review quote
    'Merleau-Ponty was one of the most substantial French philosophers of the twentieth century.' - Times Literary Supplement
    Main description
    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.
    Table of contents
    Preface, 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.