Phenomenology of Perception - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0710009941 ISBN 13 : 9780710009944

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It may seem strange that this question has still to be asked half a century after the first works of Husserl. The fact remains that it has by no means been answered.P henomenology is the study of essences; and according to it, all problems amount to finding definitions of essences: the essence of perception, or the essence of consciousness, for example. JB ut phenomenology is also a philosophy which puts essences back into existence, and does not expect to arrive at an understanding of man and the world from any starting point other than that of their(facticity!I tis a transcendental philosophy which places in abeyance the assertions arising out of the natural attitude, the better to understand them; but it is also a philosophy for which the world is always already there before reflection begins as an inalienable presence; and all its efforts are concentrated upon re-achieving a direct and primitive contact with the world, and endowing that contact with a philosophical status. It is the search for a philosophy which shall be a rigorous science ,but it also offers an account of space, time and the world as we live them. I nries tove a direct descrip Uon of our experiengeas it is, without taking account of itsjpsychologica Xjprigin and the causal explanations which the scien Ustthe historian or the socio Iogjsrmayl)e able to provide. Yet Husserl in his last works mentions a genetic phenomenology ,and even a constructive phenomenology .O ne may try to do away with these contradictions by making a distinction between Husserl sand Heidegger sphenomenologies; yet the whole of Sein und Zeit springs from an indication given by Husserl and amounts to no more than an explicit account of the naturlicher Weltbegriff or the Lebenswejf, which Husserl, towards the end of his life, identified as the central Mll-LE hnomenology, with Uie result Ihat thecontradiction reappears
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Biographie de l'auteur

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born in 1908 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France. Drawn to philosophy from a young age, Merleau-Ponty would go on to study alongside Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Simone Weil at the famous École Normale Supérieure. He completed a Docteur ès lettres based on two dissertations, La structure du comportement (1942) and Phénoménologie de la perception (1945). After a brief post at the University of Lyon, Merleau-Ponty returned to Paris in 1949 when he was awarded the Chair of Psychology and Pedagogy at the Sorbonne. In 1952 he became the youngest philosopher ever appointed to the prestigious Chair of Philosophy at the Collège de France. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1961 aged fifty-three, at the height of his career. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0710009941
• ISBN 13: 9780710009944
• Reliure: Broché
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