Merleau-Ponty: Back to Perception
Keywords:
Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology, Contemporary French Philosophy, Perception, Embodied CognitionSynopsis
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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