The logos of the sensible world : Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological philosophy / John Sallis ; Richard Rojcewicz, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sallis, John, 1938- author.

Contributor:

Rojcewicz, Richard, editor.

Series:

The collected writings of John Sallis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 177 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Summary:

This volume of the collected writings of John Sallis presents a two-semester lecture course on Maurice Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971. Devoted primarily to a close reading of the French philosopher's magnum opus, Phenomenology of Perception, the course begins with a detailed analysis of The Structure of Behavior.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Key to the Citations of Merleau-Ponty's Works

Introduction

I. The Structure of Behavior

A. Introduction

B. Chapter 1 of The Structure of Behavior: Reflex Behavior

C. Chapter 2 of The Structure of Behavior: Higher Forms of Behavior

D. Chapter 3 of The Structure of Behavior: The Physical Order, the Vital Order, the Human Order

E. Chapter 4 of The Structure of Behavior: The Relations of the Soul and the Body and the Problem of Perceptual Consciousness

II. Phenomenology of Perception

A. The Preface of the Phenomenology of Perception

B. The Introduction of the Phenomenology of Perception: Traditional Prejudices and the Return to the Phenomena

C. Part One of the Phenomenology of Perception: The Body

i. Prologue. Experience and Objective Thought. The Problem of the Body

ii. Chapter 1. The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology

iii. Chapter 3. The Spatiality of the Body Proper and Motility

iv. Chapter 5. The Body as a Sexed Being

v. Chapter 6. The Body as Expression

Speech

D. Part Two of the Phenomenology of Perception: The Perceived World

i. Introduction. The Theory of the Body Is Already a Theory of the Perceived World

ii. Chapter 1. Sense Experience

iii. Chapter 2. Space

iv. Chapter 3. The Thing and the Natural World

v. Interlude: Review and Preview

vi. Chapter 4. Other People and the Human World

E. Part Three of the Phenomenology of Perception: Being-for-Itself and Being-in-the-World

i. Chapter 1. The Cogito

ii. Chapter 2. Temporality

iii. Chapter 3. Freedom

Editor's Afterword

Index

About the Authors.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (JSTOR, viewed September 26, 2022).

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780253040466

0253040469