The logos of the sensible world : Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological philosophy /

This volume of the collected writings of John Sallis presents a two-semester lecture course on Maurice Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971. Devoted primarily to a close reading of the French philosopher's magnum opus, Phenomenology of Perception, the course begins with...

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Author / Creator: Sallis, John, 1938- (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Rojcewicz, Richard, editor.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019.
Series:Collected writings of John Sallis ; volume III/10.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Key to the Citations of Merleau-Ponty's Works
  • Introduction
  • I. The Structure of Behavior
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Chapter 1 of The Structure of Behavior: Reflex Behavior
  • C. Chapter 2 of The Structure of Behavior: Higher Forms of Behavior
  • D. Chapter 3 of The Structure of Behavior: The Physical Order, the Vital Order, the Human Order
  • E. Chapter 4 of The Structure of Behavior: The Relations of the Soul and the Body and the Problem of Perceptual Consciousness
  • II. Phenomenology of Perception
  • A. The Preface of the Phenomenology of Perception
  • B. The Introduction of the Phenomenology of Perception: Traditional Prejudices and the Return to the Phenomena
  • C. Part One of the Phenomenology of Perception: The Body
  • i. Prologue. Experience and Objective Thought. The Problem of the Body
  • ii. Chapter 1. The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology
  • iii. Chapter 3. The Spatiality of the Body Proper and Motility
  • iv. Chapter 5. The Body as a Sexed Being
  • v. Chapter 6. The Body as Expression
  • Speech
  • D. Part Two of the Phenomenology of Perception: The Perceived World
  • i. Introduction. The Theory of the Body Is Already a Theory of the Perceived World
  • ii. Chapter 1. Sense Experience
  • iii. Chapter 2. Space
  • iv. Chapter 3. The Thing and the Natural World
  • v. Interlude: Review and Preview
  • vi. Chapter 4. Other People and the Human World
  • E. Part Three of the Phenomenology of Perception: Being-for-Itself and Being-in-the-World
  • i. Chapter 1. The Cogito
  • ii. Chapter 2. Temporality
  • iii. Chapter 3. Freedom
  • Editor's Afterword
  • Index
  • About the Authors.