书名: The World of Perception
作者: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Author), Oliver Davis (Translator)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (August 24, 2004)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 041531271X
ISBN-13: 978-0415312714
Book Description
"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 lectures explore themes central not only to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy but to phenomenology as a whole. He begins by rejecting the idea - inherited from Descartes and influential within science - that perception is unreliable, 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. Ascreatures 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 behavior 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.
Review
‘In just over a hundred pages, this elegant volume present the reader with the text of seven talks...In addition, the lectures are preceded by an informative Foreword by Stéphanie Ménasé and by an excellent as well as accessible Introduction by Prof. Thomas Baldwin.’ -- Mentalhelp.net
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作者: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Author), Oliver Davis (Translator)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (August 24, 2004)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 041531271X
ISBN-13: 978-0415312714
Book Description
"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 lectures explore themes central not only to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy but to phenomenology as a whole. He begins by rejecting the idea - inherited from Descartes and influential within science - that perception is unreliable, 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. Ascreatures 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 behavior 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.
Review
‘In just over a hundred pages, this elegant volume present the reader with the text of seven talks...In addition, the lectures are preceded by an informative Foreword by Stéphanie Ménasé and by an excellent as well as accessible Introduction by Prof. Thomas Baldwin.’ -- Mentalhelp.net
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