TY - BOOK AU - Merleau-Ponty, Maurice AU - Landes, Donald A. (translator) TI - Phenomenology of perception SN - 9780415834339 (pbk.) U1 - 142.7 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Phenomenology KW - Perception (Philosophy) KW - Perception N1 - https://www.routledge.com/Phenomenology-of-Perception/Merleau-Ponty/p/book/9780415834339 N2 - Phenomenology of Perception stands in the great phenomenological tradition of Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Yet Merleau-Ponty’s 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. Charting a bold course between the reductionism of science on the one hand and intellectualism on the other, Merleau-Ponty argues that we should regard the body not as a mere biological or physical unit, but as the body which structures one’s situation and experience within the world ER -