Date : 2002
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 0-415-27840-6
ISBN : 0-415-27841-4
Collection : Routledge classics / New York : Routledge , [200?]-
Résumé / Abstract : Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato. Drawing on case studies such as brain-damaged patients from the First World War, Merleau-Ponty brilliantly shows how the body plays a crucial role note only in perception but in speech, sexuality and our relation to others. Perhaps above all, Merleau-Ponty's insights about the embodied mind are a bold and refreshing challenge to the new era of virtual reality and artificial intelligence, as scientifists and psychologists discover the centrality of the body to mind and intelligence. -4e de couv.