Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception"

This book aims to guide its reader through the notorious difficulties of Merleau-Pony's famous "Phenomenology of Perception". The author contextualizes, reconstructs, clarifies and, where necessary, completes Merleau-Ponty's analyses chapter by chapter.

Inhalt
Part 1: Introduction: classical prejudices and the return to phenomena; "sensation"; "association" and "projection of memories"; "attention" and "judgement"; the phenomenal field. Part 2 The Body: the body as object and mechanistic physiology; the experience of the body and classical psychology; the spatiality of the body itself and motility; the synthesis of the body itself; the body in its sexual being; the body as expression and speech. Part 3 The perceived world: sensing; space; the thing and the natural world; others and the human world. Part 4 Being-for-itself and being-in-the-world: the cogito; temporality; freedom. Part 5 Conclusion: a critical assessment of Merleau Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception."