Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: On the Body Informed

Timothy Mooney's book provides a clear and compelling exposition of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, demonstrating the centrality of the body schema in the theory and its motor intentionality. It shows how our lived bodies are ineliminably expressive, animated, and outcome-oriented. Mooney also analyses the work's place in the modern philosophical world, showing what Merleau-Ponty takes up from the Kantian and Phenomenological traditions and what he contributes to each.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 17 November 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This is an advanced introduction to and original interpretation of Merleau-Ponty's greatest work, Phenomenology of Perception. Timothy Mooney provides a clear and compelling exposition of the theory of our projective being in the world, and demonstrates as never before the centrality of the body schema in the theory. Thanks to the schema's motor intentionality, our bodies inhabit and appropriate space: our postures and perceptual fields are organized schematically when we move to realize our projects. Thus, our lived bodies are ineliminably expressive in being both animated and outcome-oriented through-and-through. Mooney also analyzes the place of the work in the modern philosophical world, showing what Merleau-Ponty takes up from the Kantian and Phenomenological traditions and what he contributes to each. Casting a fresh light on his magnum opus, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the philosophy and phenomenology of the body.

This is an advanced introduction to and original interpretation of Merleau-Ponty's greatest work, Phenomenology of Perception. Timothy Mooney provides a clear and compelling exposition of the theory of our projective being in the world, and demonstrates as never before the centrality of the body schema in the theory. Thanks to the schema's motor intentionality, our bodies inhabit and appropriate space: our postures and perceptual fields are organized schematically when we move to realize our projects. Thus, our lived bodies are ineliminably expressive in being both animated and outcome-oriented through-and-through. Mooney also analyzes the place of the work in the modern philosophical world, showing what Merleau-Ponty takes up from the Kantian and Phenomenological traditions and what he contributes to each. Casting a fresh light on his magnum opus, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the philosophy and phenomenology of the body.

ISBN-13: 9781009223430