Merleau-Ponty Book

1 Life and Works 4

What Is Perception? 6

The View from Somewhere 8

Formative Influences 14

Language, Painting, and Politics 22

Summary 26

Further Reading 29

2 Intentionality and Perception 30

What Is Intentionality? 30

Beyond the Phenomenological Reductions 37

What Perception Is Not 43

The Phenomenal Field 61

Molyneux's Problem 67

Summary 74

Further Reading 76

3 Body and World 78

What the Body is Not 83

The Bodily Point of View 93

The Body Schema 102

Motor Intentionality 111

Flesh and Chiasm 120

Summary 132

Further Reading 134

4 Self and Others 135

Husserl and Sartre on Other Minds 137

Empathy and Solipsism 141

Summary 149

Further Reading 150

5 History and Politics 151

Perception of History 155

Liquidation of the Dialectic 166

Summary 177

Further Reading 179

6 Vision and Style 180

The Depth of the Visible 182

The Language of Art 194

Cezanne and His World 204

Summary 211

Further Reading 212

7 Legacy and Relevance 213

Structuralism and the Habitus 214

Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Artificial Intelligence 219

Embodied Cognition, Extended Mind, Enactivism 225

Summary 229

Further Reading 230

Glossary 231

Notes 234

Bibliography 248

Index 258