'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 C zanne.
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