322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

Maurice Merleau-Ponty is known and celebrated as a renowned phenomenologist and is considered a key figure in the existentialist movement. In this wide-ranging and penetrative study, Stephen Priest engages Merleau-Ponty across the full range of his philosophical thought. He considers Merleau-Ponty's writings on the problems of the body, perception, space, time, subjectivity, freedom, language,... Read more
1. Life and Works 2. Phenomenology 3. Esistentialism 4. The Body 5. Perception 6. Space 7. Time 8. Subjectivity 9. Freedom 10. Language 11. Other Minds 12. Things 13. Art 14. Being 15. Parousia

Biography

Stephen Priest is former Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the editor of Sartre's Basic Writings (Routledge) and author of The British Empiricists, Theories of the Mind and The Subject in Question.

'I admire the rigour with which this book keeps the promise made by the title of the series. Anyone looking for a way into phenomenology will find in Stephen Priest a reliable expositor and an objective, but not hostile critic.' - John Llewelyn, University of Memphis, USA