Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception : on the body informed / Timothy D. Mooney, University College Dublin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mooney, Timothy, 1962- author.

Series:

Modern European philosophy.

Modern European philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Perception (Philosophy).

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This is an advanced introduction to and original interpretation of Merleau-Ponty's greatest work, Phenomenology of Perception. Timothy Mooney provides a clear and compelling exposition of the theory of our projective being in the world, and demonstrates as never before the centrality of the body schema in the theory. Thanks to the schema's motor intentionality our bodies inhabit and appropriate space: our postures and perceptual fields are organised schematically when we move to realise our projects. Thus our lived bodies are ineliminably expressive in being both animated and outcome oriented through-and-through. Mooney also analyses the place of the work in the modern philosophical world, showing what Merleau-Ponty takes up from the Kantian and Phenomenological traditions and what he contributes to each. Casting a fresh light on his magnum opus, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the philosophy and phenomenology of the body.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

Chapter 1 Phenomenology and Objective Thought

1.1 Introduction

1.2 From the Descriptive to the Transcendental

1.3 Active and Passive Constitution

1.4 Existential and Genetic Phenomenology

1.5 Objective Thought and Its Genealogy

Chapter 2 Sensations, Associations and Explanations

2.1 Introduction

2.2 On Sensations of Determinate Qualities

2.3 Association and Memory

2.4 On Intersensory Perception

2.5 Physicalism and Some Beliefs

Chapter 3 Attention, Judgement and Other Work

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Judgement and Motivation

3.3 Attention, Interest and Attraction

3.4 The Subject in Objective Thought

3.5 Imaginative and Somatic Work

Chapter 4 Back to the Experience of the Body

4.1 Introduction

4.2 One's Body as Object and as Lived

4.3 Body and Thing and Space

4.4 The I Can and the Will

4.5 Inheritances and Affordances

4.6 More on Merleau-Ponty's Approach

Chapter 5 The Body Schema and Our Skills

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Schema, Image and Strange Limbs

5.3 Integrally Available Hands and Legs

5.4 What the Schema Incorporates

5.5 Distanciation and Reckoning with the Possible

Chapter 6 Motor Intentionality and Our Landscapes

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The Schneider Case and Explanation

6.3 Intellectualism and Motor Intentionality

6.4 Seeing Solutions and Transposing Skills

6.5 Reflective Objectification in Action

Chapter 7 Others Expressive, Engaged and Exposed

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Other as an Analogue

7.3 Anonymity, Engagement and Separation

7.4 Expressivity and Enculturation

7.5 Exposure, the Gaze and Otherness

Chapter 8 Language, Speech and Affectivity

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Words as the Bodies of Meaning

8.3 Existential Significations and Beyond

8.4 Speaking and Spoken Speech

8.5 Affective Life and Life Decentred

Chapter 9 Temporality, Subjectivity and Idealisation

9.1 Introduction

9.2 On Immanent Temporal Awareness

9.3 Existential and Embodied Temporality

9.4 Tacit and Spoken Cogito and Perceptual Faith

9.5 The Concrete Subject and Original Union

9.6 Appropriation, Idealisation and Radical Reflection

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Nov 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-22344-5

1-009-22342-9

1-009-22341-0