Body and World - Rilegato

Todes, Samuel

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0262201356 ISBN 13: 9780262201353

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2001

Riassunto

Body and World is the definitive edition of a book that shouldnow take its place as amajor contribution to contemporary existentialphenomenology. Samuel Todes goes beyond MartinHeidegger and MauriceMerleau-Ponty in his description of how independent physical natureandexperience are united in our bodily action. His account allows himto preserve the authority ofexperience while avoiding the tendencytoward idealism that threatens both Heidegger andMerleau-Ponty.Todes emphasizes the complex structure of the human body ;front/back asymmetry, theneed to balance in a gravitational field, and so forth ;and the role that structure plays inproducing the spatiotemporal field of experience and in making possible objective knowledge of theobjects in it. He shows that perception involves nonconceptual, but nonetheless objective forms ofjudgment. One can think of Body and World as fleshing out Merleau-Ponty's project while prescientlyrelating it to the current interest in embodiment, not only in philosophy but also in psychology,linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and anthropology. Todes'swork opens new ways of thinking about problems such as the relation of perception to thought and thepossibility of knowing an independent reality ;problems that have occupied philosophers since Kantand still concern analytic and continental philosophy.

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L'autore:

Samuel Todes was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University at the time of his death in 1994. Body and World is based on his dissertation, written in 1963 and published in 1990 in the series Harvard Dissertations in Philosophy under the title The Human Body as Material Subject of the World.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0262201356
• ISBN 13: 9780262201353
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 337