1st Edition

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception

By Komarine Romdenh-Romluc Copyright 2011
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 – 1961) is hailed as one of the key philosophers of the twentieth century. Phenomenology of Perception is his most famous and influential work, and an essential text for anyone seeking to understand phenomenology. In this GuideBook Komarine Romdenh-Romluc introduces and assesses: Merleau-Ponty’s life and the background to his philosophy the key... Read more

Introduction  1. Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology  2. Traditional Prejuduces and the Return to Phenomena  3. The Body  4. The World and its Relation to Consciousness  5. Other Selves and the Human World  6. The Mind I - Preception, Action and Emotion  7. The Mind II - Thought  8. Temporality  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her current research is on Merleau-Ponty's early philosophy.

'An excellent book. Written in an inviting, jargon-free style, it offers sophisticated argumentation and illuminating commentary on the central philosophical issues at stake in Phenomenology of Perception, without descending into technicalities of interest only to specialists.' – Taylor Carman, Barnard College, USA

'Komarine Romdenh-Romluc offers an extremely lucid account of Merleau-Ponty’s landmark work, Phenomenology of Perception. She reconstructs Merleau-Ponty’s arguments in an elegant and readily intelligible fashion, and deals clearly and coherently with many of the most difficult aspects his work.' – Mark Wrathall, University of California, Riverside, USA