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.
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 realis...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edition Moderne Postmoderne
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Table of Contents:
- 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