Body and Reality
An Examination of the Relationships between the Body Proper, Physical Reality, and the Phenomenal World Starting from Plessner and Merleau-Ponty
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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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PART I: THE LIMITATIONS OF MATERIALISM
Chapter 1: Dennett and Phenomenology
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Chapter 2: Materialism and Its Critics
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Chapter 3: Hermeneutical Considerations
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PART II: THE BODY, THE PHENOMENAL WORLD, AND PHYSICAL REALITY
Chapter 4: Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied Subject
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Chapter 5: Plessner's Philosophy of Eccentric Positionality
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Chapter 6: Physical Reality and the Phenomenal World
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Chapter 7: Perceptual Illusions
Seiten 255 - 288 -
Bibliography
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Author Index
Seiten 307 - 312
16 February 2018, 312 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4163-9
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