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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 realis...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buuren, Jasper van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, 2018.
Colección:Edition Moderne Postmoderne.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I: THE LIMITATIONS OF MATERIALISM; Chapter 1: Dennett and Phenomenology; Chapter 2: Materialism and Its Critics; Chapter 3: Hermeneutical Considerations; PART II: THE BODY, THE PHENOMENAL WORLD, AND PHYSICAL REALITY; Chapter 4: Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied Subject; Chapter 5: Plessner's Philosophy of Eccentric Positionality; Chapter 6: Physical Reality and the Phenomenal World; Chapter 7: Perceptual Illusions; Bibliography; Author Index.