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This accessible and up-to-date survey introduces the central debates of English-language philosophy since 1945. After discussions of the leading philosophers of the 1950s - Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin, Quine, and Sellars - the book describes the key philosophical debates that have shaped philosophical discussions from the 1960s until the present day. This book provides a lively, critical discussion of the philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century.

A classic work from early in Russell's career and his major engagement with the nature of the mind Set the path for much of his subsequent philosophical beliefs about mind and consciousness Revised and updated Introduction by Thomas Baldwin places the book in helpful historical and philosophical context

G.E. Moore, more than either Bertrand Russell or Ludwig Wittgenstein, was chiefly responsible for the rise of the analytic method in twentieth-century philosophy. This selection of his writings shows Moore at his very best. The classic essays are crucial to major philosophical debates that still resonate today. Amongst those included are: * A Defense of Common Sense * Certainty * Sense-Data * External and Internal Relations * Hume's Theory Explained * Is Existence a Predicate? * Proof of an External World In addition, this collection also contains the key early papers in which Moore signals his break with idealism, and three important previously unpublished papers from his later work which illustrate his relationship with Wittgenstein.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important contributions to philosophy of the twentieth century. In this volume, leading philosophers from Europe and North America examine the nature and extent of Merleau-Ponty's achievement and consider its importance to contemporary philosophy.

The chapters, most of which were specially commissioned for this volume, cover the central aspects of Merleau-Ponty's influential work. These include:

• Merleau-Ponty 's debt to Husserl
• Merleau-Ponty 's conception of philosophy
• perception, action and the role of the body
• consciousness and self-consciousness
• naturalism and language
• social rules and freedom.

Contributors: David Smith, Sean Kelly, Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Hubert Dreyfus, Mark Wrathall, Thomas Baldwin, Simon Glendinning, Naomi Eilan, Eran Dorfman, Francoise Dastur

This book explores the work of spectres in Denis Diderot's Salons, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, and Gilles Deleuze's Francis Bacon, logique de la sensation. It examines the extent to which Diderot, Proust and Deleuze are able to resist the 'Marcellus complex'.

This book describes the development of Proust's treatment of material objects from his earliest work

Contents:
Acknowledgments Editor's Introduction 1. Merleau-Ponty's prospectus 2. Selections from The Structure of Behavior 3. Selections from The Phenomenology of Perception (i) Preface (ii) Part I: The Body (a) Introduction
(b) From Chapter 1 - The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology (c) From Chapter 3 - The Spatiality of one's own Body and Mobility (iii) Part II: The World as Perceived (a) From introduction (b) From Chapter 1 - Sense-Experience (c) From Chapter 3 - The Thing and the Natural World (d) From Chapter 4 - Other Selves and the Human World (iv) Part III: Being-for-itself and Being-in-the-world (a) Chapter 1 - The Cogito (b) Chapter 3 - Freedom 4. Selection from The Prose of the World Chapter 4 - The Algorithm and the Mystery of Language 5. Selection from The Visible and the Invisible Chapter 4 - The Intertwining - The Chiasm 6. Painting (i) 'Cezanne's Doubt' (ii) 'Eye and Mind' 7. History 'The Crisis of Understanding'

Merleau-Ponty was a pivotal figure in twentieth century French philosophy. He was responsible for bringing the phenomenological methods of the German philosophers - Husserl and Heidegger - to France and instigated a new wave of interest in this approach. His influence extended well beyond the boundaries of philosophy and can be seen in theories of politics, psychology, art and language.
This is the first volume to bring together a comprehensive selection of Merleau-Ponty's writing.
Sections from the following are included:
The Primacy of Perception
The Structure of Behaviour
The Phenomenology of Perception
The Prose of the World
The Visible and the Invisible
Sense and Non-Sense
The Adventures of the Dialectic
In a substantial critical introduction Thomas Baldwin provides a critical discussion of the main themes of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, connecting it to subsequent philosophical debates and setting it in the context of the ideas of Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. Each text is also prefaced with an explanation which sets it in its context in Merleau-Ponty's work; and there are extensive suggestions for further reading to enable students to pursue the issues raised by Merleau-Ponty. Thus the book provides the ideal materials for students studying Merleau-Ponty for the first time.

G.E. Moore, more than either Bertrand Russell or Ludwig Wittgenstein, was chiefly responsible for the rise of the analytic method in twentieth-century philosophy. This selection of his writings shows Moore at his very best.
The classic essays are crucial to major philosophical debates that still resonate today. Amongst those included are:
* A Defense of Common Sense
* Certainty
* Sense-Data
* External and Internal Relations
* Hume's Theory Explained
* Is Existence a Predicate?
* Proof of an External World
In addition, this collection also contains the key early papers in which Moore signals his break with idealism, and three important previously unpublished papers from his later work which illustrate his relationship with Wittgenstein.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important contributions to philosophy of the twentieth century. In this volume, leading philosophers from Europe and North America examine the nature and extent of Merleau-Ponty's achievement and consider its importance to contemporary philosophy.

The chapters, most of which were specially commissioned for this volume, cover the central aspects of Merleau-Ponty's influential work. These include:

• Merleau-Pontya (TM)s debt to Husserl
• Merleau-Pontya (TM)s conception of philosophy
• perception, action and the role of the body
• consciousness and self-consciousness
• naturalism and language
• social rules and freedom.

Contributors: David Smith, Sean Kelly, Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Hubert Dreyfus, Mark Wrathall, Thomas Baldwin, Simon Glendinning, Naomi Eilan, Eran Dorfman, Francoise Dastur

"Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own."
In 1948, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote and delivered on French radio a series of seven lectures on the theme of perception. Translated here into English for the first time, they offer a lucid and concise insight into one of the great philosophical minds of the twentieth-century.
The lectures explore themes central not only to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy but to phenomenology as a whole. He begins by rejecting the idea - inherited from Descartes and influential within science - that perception is unreliable, prone to distort the world around us. Merleau-Ponty instead argues that perception is inseparable from our senses and it is how we make sense of the world.
Merleau-Ponty explores this guiding theme through a brilliant series of reflections on science, space, our relationships with others, animal life and art. Throughout, he argues that perception is never something learned and then applied to the world. Ascreatures with embodied minds, he reminds us that we are born perceiving and share with other animals and infants a state of constant, raw, unpredictable contact with the world. He provides vivid examples with the help of Kafka, animal behavior and above all modern art, particularly the work of Cezanne.
A thought-provoking and crystalline exploration of consciousness and the senses, "The World of" "Perception" is essential reading for anyone interested in the work of Merleau-Ponty, twentieth-century philosophy and art.