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The world of perception

Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; translated by Oliver Davis

Routledge, 2004

タイトル別名

Causeries 1948

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注記

"République française"

"First published in French as Causeries 1948, copyright Editions du Seuil, 2002"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical notes (p.115-121) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

'Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own.' In 1948, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote and delivered on French radio a series of seven lectures on the theme of perception. Translated here into English for the first time, they offer a lucid and concise insight into one of the great philosophical minds of the twentieth-century. These lectures explore themes central not only to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy but phenomenology as a whole. He begins by rejecting the idea - inherited from Descartes and influential within science - that perception is unreliable and prone to distort the world around us. Merleau-Ponty instead argues that perception is inseparable from our senses and it is how we make sense of the world. Merleau-Ponty explores this guiding theme through a brilliant series of reflections on science, space, our relationships with others, animal life and art. Throughout, he argues that perception is never something learned and then applied to the world. As creatures with embodied minds, he reminds us that we are born perceiving and share with other animals and infants a state of constant, raw, unpredictable contact with the world. He provides vivid examples with the help of Kafka, animal behaviour and above all modern art, particularly the work of Cezanne. A thought-provoking and crystalline exploration of consciousness and the senses, The World of Perception is essential reading for anyone interested in the work of Merleau-Ponty, twentieth-century philosophy and art.

目次

Foreword 1. The World of Perception and the World of Science 2. Exploring the World of Perception: Space 3. Exploring the World of Perception: Sensory Objects 4. Exploring the World of Perception: Animal Life 5. Man Seen from the Outside 6. Art and the World of Perception 7. Classical World, Modern World

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA73113147
  • ISBN
    • 9780415312714
  • LCCN
    2003026843
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    fre
  • 出版地
    London ; New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    ix, 125 p.
  • 大きさ
    21 cm
  • 件名
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