Merleau-Ponty: Back to Perception

Authors

Paolo Amodio
University of Naples Federico II
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-035X
Alessandra Scotti
University of Naples Federico II
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6191-7547

Keywords:

Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology, Contemporary French Philosophy, Perception, Embodied Cognition

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Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series:  Miscellaneous

Pages: 181

Language: English

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-29003

Abstract: If “back to the things themselves” is the motto of phenomenology, this volume aims to return to perception, over 75 years after Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. In this book, phenomenology discovered perception for the first time, primarily understood as bodily perception. Since then, philosophy has never ceased investigating its meaning, not only in the various philosophical domains (epistemology, aesthetics and even moral theory), but also – and increasingly – from a multidisciplinary perspective that links the problem of perception to questions pertaining to anthropology and human geography (the topic of situationality in space), cognitive psychology (the body schema and the perception of the external world), and semiotics (perception as a means of expression). This volume, therefore, presents the natural continuation of a collective reflection on the perceptive turn made by Merleau-Ponty, and on how this takes on a new social meaning, a new epistemological and cultural value that prompts us once again to ask the following question: what about perception today?

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Author Biographies

Paolo Amodio, University of Naples Federico II

Paolo Amodio is Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II. His research activity focuses on various areas: philosophical and ethical-political thought in eighteenth-century Naples in relation to the European intellectual world; the history of libertinism, explored in its anthropological-philosophical implications; the new Jewish thought in relation to tradition and recent ethical-philosophical perspectives; philosophical anthropology at the crossroads ethics, science and philosophy; and bioethics as an epistemological question. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal “S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it”.

Alessandra Scotti, University of Naples Federico II

Alessandra Scotti is Research Fellow at the University of Naples Federico II. Previously she was Research Fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici and the Center for Advanced Studies - South East Europe of the University of Rijeka. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journals “S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it” and “Chiasmi International”. Her main research interests – reflected by several studies and publications as well as her participation in national and international conferences – are contemporary French philosophy and philosophical anthropology, with a special focus on Merleau-Ponty.

Merleau Ponty

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Published

February 22, 2023

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-88-6887-165-9

Publication date (01)

2023-02-22

doi

10.6093/978-88-6887-165-9