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Body and World (Paperback, New)
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Body and World (Paperback, New)
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"Body and World" is the definitive edition of a book that should
now take its place as a major contribution to contemporary
existential phenomenology. Samuel Todes goes beyond Martin
Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in his description of how
independent physical nature and experience are united in our bodily
action. His account allows him to preserve the authority of
experience while avoiding the tendency toward idealism that
threatens both Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. Todes emphasizes the
complex structure of the human body--front/back asymmetry, the need
to balance in a gravitational field, and so forth--and the role
that structure plays in producing the spatiotemporal field of
experience and in making possible objective knowledge of the
objects in it. He shows that perception involves nonconceptual, but
nonetheless objective forms of judgment. One can think of "Body and
World" as fleshing out Merleau-Ponty's project while presciently
relating it to the current interest in embodiment, not only in
philosophy but also in psychology, linguistics, cognitive science,
artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and anthropology. Todes's
work opens new ways of thinking about problems such as the relation
of perception to thought and the possibility of knowing an
independent reality--problems that have occupied philosophers since
Kant and still concern analytic and continental philosophy.
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