Body and Reality

Jasper van Buuren

doi:10.14361/9783839441633

Zusammenfassung

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 realism? Jasper van Buuren addresses these questions by exploring the nature of the body proper in Merleau-Ponty and Plessner, arguing that physical and phenomenal realism are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The argument includes a close examination of the relationships between scientific and pre-scientific perspectives, between living and non-living things, and between humans and animals.

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Copyrightjahr: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-4163-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-4163-3
Verlag: transcript, Bielefeld
Reihe: Edition Moderne Postmoderne
Band: 0
Sprache: Deutsch
Seiten: 312
Produkttyp: Monographie

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FrontmatterSeiten 1 - 4 Download Kapitel (PDF)
ContentsSeiten 5 - 6 Download Kapitel (PDF)
PrefaceSeiten 7 - 8 Download Kapitel (PDF)
IntroductionSeiten 9 - 34 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 1: Dennett and PhenomenologySeiten 37 - 58 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 2: Materialism and Its CriticsSeiten 59 - 92 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 3: Hermeneutical ConsiderationsSeiten 93 - 134 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 4: Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied SubjectSeiten 137 - 184 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 5: Plessner’s Philosophy of Eccentric PositionalitySeiten 185 - 218 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 6: Physical Reality and the Phenomenal WorldSeiten 219 - 254 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 7: Perceptual IllusionsSeiten 255 - 288 Download Kapitel (PDF)
BibliographySeiten 289 - 306 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Author IndexSeiten 307 - 312 Download Kapitel (PDF)