An original. Assesses the importance of Merleau-Ponty to current and ongoing concerns in contemporary philosophy. Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century philosophy.
The recent publication of his lecture courses and posthumous working notes has opened new avenues for both the interpretation of his thought and philosophy in general.
These works confirm that, with a surprising premonition, Merleau-Ponty addressed many of the issues that concern philosophy today. With the benefit of this fuller picture of his.
This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated perspectives on art and perception based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Although Merleau-Ponty focused almost exclusively on painting in his writings on aesthetics, this collection also considers poetry, literary works, theater, and relationships between art and science. In addition to philosophers, the contributors include a painter, a photographer, a musicologist, and an architect.
David Brubaker. Open navigation menu. Close suggestions Search Search. User Settings. Skip carousel. Carousel Previous. Carousel Next. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception , art , politics , religion , psychology , psychoanalysis , language , nature , and history. He was the lead editor of Les Temps modernes , the leftist magazine he established with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in At the core of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is a sustained argument for the foundational role perception plays in understanding the world as well as engaging with the world.
Like the other major phenomenologists, Merleau-Ponty expressed his philosophical insights in writings on art , literature , linguistics , and politics. He was the only major phenomenologist of the first half of the twentieth century to engage extensively with the sciences and especially with Gestalt psychology.
It is through this engagement that his writings became influential in the project of naturalizing phenomenology, in which phenomenologists use the results of psychology and cognitive science.
Merleau-Ponty emphasized the body as the primary site of knowing the world, a corrective to the long philosophical tradition of placing consciousness as the source of knowledge , and maintained that the body and that which it perceived could not be disentangled from each other.
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It appears your browser does not have it turned on. He was a friend of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre and a man who wanted to get philosophy back to its. Merleau-Ponty analyzes the intellectualist subjectivist-idealist and the empiricist objectivist-realist attitudes in practically every chapter of the book. He incessantly shows the impasses and the insufficiencies of both, thus preparing the ground for a third perspective, that.
Buy This Book in Print. The work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty touches on some of the most essential and vital concerns of the world today, yet his ideas are difficult and not widely understood. Lawrence Hass redresses this problem by offering an exceptionally clear, carefully argued, critical appreciation of Merleau.
Last edited by Kazrami. Merleau-Ponty Mary Rose Barral. Classifications LC Classifications B Number of Pages ID Numbers Open Library OLM The primacy of perception: and other essays on phenomenological psychology, the philosophy of art, history, and politics by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Book editions published between and in 10 languages and held by 5, WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
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