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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: van Buuren, Jasper,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Moderne Postmoderne
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839441633; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604214; 9783110603217; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839441633?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jasper van Buuren.

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 animals.