Author: Maurice Merleau-PontyPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120813465
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Buddhist philosophy of Anicca (impermanence), Dukkha (suffering), and
Child Psychology and Pedagogy
Author: Maurice Merleau-PontyPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126141
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the few major phenomenologists to engage extensively with empirical research in the sciences, and the only one to examine child psychology with rigor and in such depth. His writings have recently become increasingly influential, as the findings of psychology and cognitive science inform and are informed by phenomenological inquiry. Merleau-Ponty’s Sorbonne lectures of 1949 to 1952 are a broad investigation into child psychology, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, phenomenology, sociology, and anthropology. They argue that the subject of child psychology is critical for any philosophical attempt to understand individual and intersubjective existence. Talia Welsh’s new translation provides Merleau-Ponty’s complete lectures on the seminal engagement of phenomenology and psychology.
The World of Perception
Author: Maurice Merleau-PontyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000154904
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science – and also the insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger.' - James Elkins Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important thinkers of the post-war era. Central to his thought was the idea that human understanding comes from our bodily experience of the world that we perceive: a deceptively simple argument, perhaps, but one that he felt had to be made in the wake of attacks from contemporary science and the philosophy of Descartes on the reliability of human perception. From this starting point, Merleau-Ponty presented these seven lectures on The World of Perception to French radio listeners in 1948. Available in a paperback English translation for the first time in the Routledge Classics series to mark the centenary of Merleau-Ponty’s birth, this is a dazzling and accessible guide to a whole universe of experience, from the pursuit of scientific knowledge, through the psychic life of animals to the glories of the art of Paul Cézanne.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings
Author: Thomas BaldwinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113437559X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This is the first volume to bring together a comprehensive selection of Merleau-Ponty's writing. It presents a cross-section of his work that clearly shows the historical progression of his ideas and influence.
The Prose of the World
Author: Maurice Merleau-PontyPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810106154
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The work that Maurice Merleau-Ponty planned to call The Prose of the World, or Introduction to the Prose of the World, was unfinished at the time of his death. The book was to constitute the first section of a two-part work whose aim was to offer, as an extension of his Phenomenology of Perception, a theory of truth. This edition's editor, Claude Lefort, has interpreted and transcribed the surviving typescript, reproducing Merleau-Ponty's own notes and adding documentation and commentary.
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Author: Dorothea OlkowskiNature
Author: Maurice Merleau-PontyPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810114463
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Collected in this text are the written notes of courses on the concept of nature give by Merleau-Ponty at the College de France in the 1950s. The ideas that animated the philosopher's lectures emerge in an early, fluid form in the process of being elaborated, negotiated, critiqued and reconsidered.
The Child as Natural Phenomenologist
Author: Talia WelshPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810128802
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) is well known for his work in phenomenology, but his lectures in child psychology and pedagogy have received little attention, probably because Talia Welsh translated the lectures in their entirety only in 2010. The Child as Natural Phenomenologist summarizes Merleau-Ponty’s work in child psychology, shows its relationship to his philosophical work, and argues for its continued relevance in contemporary theory and practice. Welsh demonstrates Merleau-Ponty’s unique conception of the child’s development as inherently organized, meaningful, and engaged with the world, contrary to views that see the child as largely internally preoccupied and driven by instinctual demands. Welsh finds that Merleau-Ponty’s ideas about human psychology remain relevant in today’s growing field of child studies and that they provide important insights for philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists to better understand the human condition.
The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader
Author: Maurice Merleau-PontyPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810110741
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank even today among the most sophisticated reflections on art in all of twentieth-century philosophy. His essays on painting, "Cezanne's Doubt" (1945), "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence" (1952), and "Eye and Mind" (1960), have inspired new approaches to epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of history. Galen A. Johnson has gathered these essays for the first time into a single volume and augmented them with essays by distinguished scholars and artists, including M.C. Dillon, Mikel Dufrenne, and René Magritte. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic.
