Phenomonology of perception routledge classics merleau ponty maurice isbn 9780415045568 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon phenomonology of perception routledge classics amazonde merleau ponty maurice fremdsprachige bucher. This new translation the first for over fifty years makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers phenomenology of perception stands in the great phenomenological tradition of husserl heidegger and sartre yet merleau pontys contribution is decisive as he brings this tradition and other philosophical predecessors particularly descartes and kant to confront a neglected dimension of our experience the lived body and the phenomenal world . The phenomenology of perception was merleau pontys second work and lays the foundation for his later writings what merleau ponty attempts to do in this work is to take phenomenology away from the idealist and dualistic tracks of husserl and sartre and ground it firmly in ontology through a psychological analysis of perception in doing so merleau ponty lays the foundations for structuralism and its later incarnations for better or worse poststructuralism and deconstructuralism derrida . Challenging and rewarding in equal measure phenomenology of perception is merleau pontys most famous work impressive in both scope and imagination it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since plato drawing on case studies such as brain damaged patients from the first world war merleau ponty brilliantly shows how the body plays a crucial role not only in perception but in speech sexuality and our relation to others