About this title: '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. The ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2008-05-31
ISBN-13:9780415773812ISBN:0415773814
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780415773812ISBN:0415773814
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 7.795 by 5.079 inches. Foreword by stephanie menase introduction by thomas baldwin 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 notes indexone of the most important thinkers of the post-war era, maurice merleau-ponty presented ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780415312714ISBN:041531271X
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 7.795 by 5.079 inches. 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 worldthe first translation in to english of merleau-ponty's seven lectures on perception. lucid and concise, this book explores the theme through ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780415773812ISBN:0415773814
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780415312714ISBN:041531271X
Description: Good. --All NEW items are exactly as provided by the publisher. All USED items are in Good condition or better, and copies may contain store stickers, highlighting, etc from normal use by previous owner(s). One-time use supplements (e.g., access codes, tear-out flash cards, reference cards, etc) provided with new copies are NOT guaranteed. --Professional booksellers: inquiries always welcome. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780415773812ISBN:0415773814
Description: New. Central to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's thought was the idea that human understanding comes from our bodily experience of the world that we perceive. This title provides a guide to a whole universe of experience, from the pursuit of scientific knowledge, t... read more
"I've never read any other Merleau-Ponty, so I can't really say with authority if this is a good introduction to his work, but I doubt there is a better one. This is a series of lectures that Merleau-Ponty made on French radio in 1948. Each chapter is a fun, lucid argument for the centrality of perception in the human world. I especially enjoyed his description of honey in contrast to Descartes' example of wax."
"THE WORLD OF PERCEPTION BY MAURICE MERLE-AU-PONTY
EXPLORING THE WORLD OF PERCEPTION...(space)...lecture...2 in sociology as in geometry the notion of a single unified space entirely open to disembodied intellectual been replaced with the idea of a space which consists of different (regions) and has certain privileges and directions these are closely related to our bodily features..
be content with the woks of art that leave open the possibility for a variety of interpretations we must learn to live, not only after the death of god,...but also without the dream of reason. (maybe they ate both the same)... now this was not penned in 2008..when we recognized the mistakes made..yet unsolved.. social,...political,...economical,,,, as each come to light...IT WAS PUBLISHED.IN 1948..
classical world & modern world... he quotes DAVID-HUME...discussion on ANIMALS v MANKIND...and then states that the (joke)... is on mankind if he thinks he is superior to all.. DESECRATES...stated that the perception is unreliable,...prone .. to distortion in the world around us...MERLEAN-PONTY,....theme argument is rooted in the bodily experience of the perceived world people,...animals,... etc... therefore each reality only reveals its own aspects but,...are the interchangeable,.!!!.. in MEDITATIONS OF THE FIRST PHILOSOPHY... nature teaches me that by sensations of pain,...hunger,...thirst... and so on that i am not merely pres ant in my body.. as a sailor is present on the ship,.. but that i am very closely joined and as it were intermingled so that (i am the body,..form of a unit....).."
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