Merleau-Ponty / Stephen Priest.

In this wide-ranging and penetrative study, Stephen Priest uses clear and direct language to explain the thoughts and ensuing importance of one of the greatest contemporary thinkers.

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Main Author: Priest, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Series:Arguments of the philosophers.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Life and Works. 1. Student and intellectual. 2. The Structure of Behaviour. 3. The Phenomenology of Perception. 4. Professor and man of letters. 5. The Visible and the Invisible
  • II. Phenomenology. 1. Existence and essence. 2. The natural attitude and its suspension. 3. Being-in-the-world. 4. The critique of science. 5. Phenomenological reflection
  • III. Existentialism. 1. Hegel's existentialism. 2. Being and knowing. 3. Being-towards-death. 4. Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. 5. The synthesis of being and nothingness
  • IV. The Body. 1. The body-subject. 2. Being my body. 3. Merleau-Ponty and the mind-body problem. 4. The flesh of the world. 5. Who looks into the mirror?
  • V. Perception. 1. Perceiving wholes.