Starting with Merleau-Ponty.

Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important European philosophers of the 20th century, whose work made enormous contributions to the development of phenomenology and the concept of the lived-body. Clearly and thematically structured, covering all Merleau-Ponty's key works and focussing particul...

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Main Author: Morris, Katherine J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub., 2012.
Series:Starting withGǪ
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Table of Contents:
  • Title; Copyright; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1 Starting with Merleau-Ponty; i. Phenomenology and existential philosophy: Husserl and Heidegger; iv. Coda: What phenomenology is not; i. Gestalt qualities; ii. The Empiricist Picture; iii. Intellectualist variants on the empiricist picture; v. Coda: Merleau-Ponty and science; Chapter 3 The Body; ii. A better account: Cartesian physiology vs. embodied being-in-the-world; v. USING THE ABNORMAL II: habits, skills and bodily knowledge; vi. Coda: Normal and Abnormal.