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By Maurice Merleau-Ponty

First released in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s enormous Phénoménologie de los angeles notion signalled the coming of an incredible new philosophical and highbrow voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the present photo of existentialism and phenomenology on the time, it has turn into one of many landmark works of twentieth-century idea. This new translation, the 1st for over fifty years, makes this vintage paintings of philosophy to be had to a brand new new release of readers.

Phenomenology of notion stands within the nice phenomenological culture of Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. but Merleau-Ponty’s contribution is decisive, as he brings this custom and different philosophical predecessors, rather Descartes and Kant, to confront a overlooked size of our adventure: the lived physique and the exceptional global. Charting a daring path among the reductionism of technology at the one hand and "intellectualism" at the different, Merleau-Ponty argues that we must always regard the physique now not as an insignificant organic or actual unit, yet because the physique which buildings one’s scenario and adventure in the world.

Merleau-Ponty enriches his vintage paintings with attractive reports of recognized circumstances within the background of psychology and neurology in addition to phenomena that proceed to attract our recognition, similar to phantom limb syndrome, synaesthesia, and hallucination. This new translation contains many beneficial positive factors comparable to the reintroduction of Merleau-Ponty’s discursive desk of Contents as subtitles into the physique of the textual content, a accomplished Translator’s advent to its major issues, crucial notes explaining key phrases of translation, an intensive Index, and a big updating of Merleau-Ponty’s references to now on hand English translations.

Also integrated is a brand new foreword via Taylor Carman and an advent to Merleau-Ponty by Claude Lefort.

Translated by way of Donald A. Landes.

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