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excellent introduction to the philosophy of the body and Merleau-Ponty's Work, Dec 3 2007
By Glen A. Mazis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics (Paperback)
After teaching and writing about the phenomenology of the body and Merleau-Ponty for three decades, I am often asked what of his works to start with and I usually say this one for the more serious reader. The essays are engaging and complex and go to the heart of Merleau-Ponty's perspective on how embodiemnt is our way of knowing the world and expressing it. "The Child's Relations with Others" is a brilliant extrapolation from psychological studies of how infants dwell in a shared embodiment and world with other infants and persons, a prereflective realm of affect and perception. This experience will remain as an acquisition throughout life that will surface in love and friendship--the echo of the infant's shared body with others. It may also be repressed by abuse, and Merleau-Ponty looks at this, long before others. "Eye and Mind" is the most concise articulation of both Merleau-Ponty's later poetic "re-languaging" of philosophy and his notion of the artist as expressing our "reversible" relationship with the world around us through a heightening of aspects of perception--where part of what we perceive is how we appear AS IF WE WERE being perceived by that object. It articulates how we only "come to ourselves" through the world, and how the artists expresses this journey of perception and imagination. The other essays are equally powerful.
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another cobbler, April 4 2012
By MotionlessArrival - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics (Paperback)
Ah, I keep pursuing the buzz of my original reading of The Phenomenology of Perception, but keep being disappointed. While the title essay herein is a concise and demonstrative statement of Ponty's philosophical intention, the rest of the book is a cobble together of essays from here and there, sometimes living up to his descriptive, phenomenological aspirations, as in 'Eye and Mind', but often falling short or being diverted.Most volumes of Merleau Ponty's work I've purchased subsequent to The Phenomenology of Perception have struck me this way. His major essays are reprinted in collection with sundry subsidiary works; I must have about ten copies of 'Cezanne's Doubt' smuggled into and padding out various, differently titled cobblings. While there are moments in all of these volumes when you can feel Merleau Ponty moving in the text, his intelligence, fleshed out with global engagement and palpable in the body of the book, it mostly doesn't last for long. I always return therefore to The Phenomenology of Perception, as the most sustained and exemplary working out of the project of sensitive phenomenological engagement yet communicated - and that is the book for any philosopher who lives in the world to get their hands on, again and again. If you must have more of that, further nuanced and reiterated, this book only partly provides it. But there is some.
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