Phenomenology of Perception av Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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<P>First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty¿s monumental <EM>Ph¿m¿logie de la perception </EM>signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of twentieth-century thought. This new translation, the first for over fifty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers.</P><br/><br/><P><EM>Phenomenology of Perception </EM>stands in the great phenomenological tradition of Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Yet Merleau-Ponty¿s contribution is decisive, as he brings this tradition and other philosophical predecessors, particularly Descartes and Kant, to confront a neglected dimension of our experience: the lived body and the phenomenal world. Charting a bold course between the reductionism of science on the one hand and intellectualism on the other, Merleau-Ponty argues that we shou