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Body and Reality : An Examination of the Relationships between the Body Proper, Physical Reality, and the Phenomenal World Starting from Plessner and Merleau-Ponty / Jasper van Buuren
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Edition Moderne PostmodernePublisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9783839441633
- 128.6 23
- B105.B64
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Summary: Is materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience - the phenomenal world - is nothing but an illusion produced in physical reality, notably in the brain? Or is Merleau-Ponty right when he defends the fundamental character of the phenomenal world while rejecting physical realism? Jasper van Buuren addresses these questions by exploring the nature of the body proper in Merleau-Ponty and Plessner, arguing that physical and phenomenal realism are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The argument includes a close examination of the relationships between scientific and pre-scientific perspectives, between living and non-living things, and between humans and animalsPPN: PPN: 1922682349Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: THE LIMITATIONS OF MATERIALISM -- Chapter 1: Dennett and Phenomenology -- Chapter 2: Materialism and Its Critics -- Chapter 3: Hermeneutical Considerations -- PART II: THE BODY, THE PHENOMENAL WORLD, AND PHYSICAL REALITY -- Chapter 4: Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied Subject -- Chapter 5: Plessner's Philosophy of Eccentric Positionality -- Chapter 6: Physical Reality and the Phenomenal World -- Chapter 7: Perceptual Illusions -- Bibliography -- Author Index
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