Phenomenology of Perception

Name: Phenomenology of Perception
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Philosophy of human perception grounded in embodied consciousness and experience

Find on Amazon

About the author

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

French phenomenologist whose Phenomenology of Perception placed the lived body at the center of experience, against Cartesian mind-body dualism. He argued that perception is always already embodied and situated. His work influenced cognitive science, dance, and disability studies.

More by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Visible and the InvisibleUnfinished metaphysical work on being, flesh, and ontological dimensions
The Structure of BehaviorEarly philosophical investigation of how behavior and consciousness relate
SignsEssays on meaning, sign, and communication through language and gesture
Adventures of the DialecticCritical essays on Marxism, Sartre, and dialectical philosophy debates
Sense and Non-SenseEssays on absurdity, language, psychology, and post-war intellectual crisis