First Nature: : : The Problem of Nature in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty / / Alessio Rotundo.

• Superior document: Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; 24
• VerfasserIn: Rotundo, Alessio,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages) :; illustrations.

This book explores a radically integrative phenomenology of nature through the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By revisiting novel empirical findings in the sciences and advances in scientific methods and concepts, Merleau-Ponty leads us to rediscover a first nature right at the heart of the subject. Alessio Rotundo traces and documents the presence of a double meaning of nature affecting Merleau-Ponty's analyses across foundational aspects of human experience: sense perception, organic development and behavior, cognition, language, and history. Physical, biological, and psychological processes in nature are not merely scientific data; they provide the evidence for another, more primordial sense of nature.

Table of Contents

Introduction : stating the problem -- Natura sub specie structurae -- Pathway to first nature -- Operative intentionality from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty -- Orders of experience -- Mundus sensibilis -- Structural ontology between Merleau-Ponty and the new philosophy of science -- Nature and logos -- The institution of nature.