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Body and Reality An Examination of the Relationships between the Body Proper, Physical Reality, and the Phenomenal World Starting from Plessner and Merleau-Ponty Jasper van Buuren
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- van Buuren, Jasper <p>Jasper van Buuren, independent philosopher based in Berlin, Germany</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Edition Moderne Postmoderne
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merleau-Ponty.
- Plessner.
- Body.
- Physical Reality.
- Phenomenal World.
- Realism.
- Phenomenology.
- Materialism.
- Philosophy of Body.
- Philosophical Anthropology.
- Philosophy.
- Local Subjects:
- Merleau-Ponty.
- Plessner.
- Body.
- Physical Reality.
- Phenomenal World.
- Realism.
- Phenomenology.
- Materialism.
- Philosophy of Body.
- Philosophical Anthropology.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- van Buuren, Body and Reality An Examination of the Relationships between the Body Proper, Physical Reality, and the Phenomenal World Starting from Plessner and Merleau-Ponty
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Jasper van Buuren, born in 1974, is an independent philosopher based in Berlin with publications in the fields of phenomenology, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of the good life. He obtained his master's degree in philosophy in Amsterdam and Leuven. After several visiting studentships in the United States he received his PhD in Potsdam.
- Summary:
- Is materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience – the phenomenal world – is nothing but an illusion produced in physical reality, notably in the brain? Or is Merleau-Ponty right when he defends the fundamental character of the phenomenal world while rejecting physical realism? Jasper van Buuren addresses these questions by exploring the nature of the body proper in Merleau-Ponty and Plessner, arguing that physical and phenomenal realism are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The argument includes a close examination of the relationships between scientific and pre-scientific perspectives, between living and non-living things, and between humans and animals.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Introduction 9 Chapter 1: Dennett and Phenomenology 37 Chapter 2: Materialism and Its Critics 59 Chapter 3: Hermeneutical Considerations 93 Chapter 4: Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied Subject 137 Chapter 5: Plessner's Philosophy of Eccentric Positionality 185 Chapter 6: Physical Reality and the Phenomenal World 219 Chapter 7: Perceptual Illusions 255 Bibliography 289 Author Index 307
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- ISBN:
- 9783839441633
- 3839441633
- OCLC:
- 1031963818
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