Body and World (Paperback, New)

"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.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Body and World
Release date:	April 2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	Samuel Todes
Introduction by:	Hubert L Dreyfus (Professor of Philosophy) • Piotr Hoffman
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-70082-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Promotions
LSN:	0-262-70082-4
Barcode:	9780262700825

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