A guide to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of perception / George J. Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, George J., 1949-

Series:

Marquette studies in philosophy ; #59.

Marquette studies in philosophy ; no. 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Perception (Philosophy).

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961. Phénoménologie de la perception.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This guide is based upon the belief that the best source for discovering what Merleau-Ponty has to say is what he, himself, says. But the European style of writing and the dialectical form of argument present major obstacles for the first time reader of this book. This guide attempts to overcome these problems by providing the reader with the necessary background, explanations of how the chapters of the book fit together, maps of the structure of the arguments of each chapter, a glossary of technical philosophical and psychological terms, and a useful bibliography. These things do not replace

Contents:

short title A Guide to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception; title page George J. Marshall A Guide To Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception; copyright page; Table of Contents; Preface; Section 1-Introduction; Section II-Guide to the Argument of the Phenomenology of Perception; Preface; Introduction: Traditional Prejudices & the Return to Phenomena; Chapter 1 'Sensation' as a Unit of Experience; Chapter 2 'Association'and the 'Projection of Memories'; Chapter 3 'Attention' and 'Judgment'; Chapter 4 The Phenomenal Field

Part I-The Body: Experience and Objective Thought, The problem of the bodyChapter 1 The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology; Chapter 2 The Experience of the Body & Classical Psychology; Chapter 3 The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motility; Chapter 4 The Synthesis of One's Own Body; Chapter 5 The Body in its Sexual Being; Chapter 6 The Body as Expression and Speech; Part II-The World as Perceived: The Theory of the Body is Already a Theory of Perception; Chapter 1 Sense Experience; Chapter 2 Space; Chapter 3 The Thing and the Natural World

Chapter 4 Other People and the Human WorldPart III-Being-for-Itself and Being-in-the-World: The lack of an introduction for the Third Part; Chapter I The Cogito; Chapter 2 Temporality; Chapter 3 Freedom; Section III-Glossary: Philosophical and Psychological Terms; Section IV-A Bibliography of Works on Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-310) and index.

ISBN:

1-4416-2354-X

0-87462-828-8

OCLC:

503446754