Phenomenology of Perception

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, reinterprets the phenomenological method he adopted from Husserl with an aesthetic understanding in his masterpiece , Phenomenology of Perception . This interpretation, which puts the body at the center, adds a unique dimension to the debate between psychologism and intellectualism that has been going on since Descartes and the empiricists. On the other hand, it allows us to rediscover the deep relationship between science and art through philosophy. This study, which reveals the first drafts of contemporary problems of both analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, actually addresses not only the field of philosophy, but also a wide scope ranging from literature to social sciences, as a reference book for those who want to flesh out thought, so to speak.

“We are in the world, that is, things appear like a picture, a gigantic individual affirms itself, each existence understands itself and others. All we have to do is accept these phenomena on which all our certainties are based.”

–Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Merleau-Ponty always thought about vision. (...) What is seeing? This question underpinned the others until the end; but this was not because we saw before we spoke or before we thought, but rather because we always talked about this seeing but forgot it, because to question was to evoke a questioning that was already passing through it, to vibrate both eye and voice at the same time, to acknowledge the mystery of expression... ”

– Claude Lefort, “Preface to the Critical Edition”

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 624

Size: 13.5 x 21

Original Name: Phénoménologie de la perception