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

About the Author
Tom Baldwin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK.

Reviews

"This excellent volume contains most of the papers read at an Anglo-French colloquium on Merleau-Ponty held at the CollAge de France in the summer of 2005, plus two additional essays (by Sean Kelly and Mark Wrathall) not presented there...the collection offers an engaging mixture of textual interpretation and critical argument to those who already have at least a rough sense of what Phenomenology of Perception is all about." --Taylor Carman, Barnard College, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Book Information
ISBN 9780415399944
Author Thomas Baldwin
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 272g