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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.
Price: $40.00
Pages: 312
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
24 July 2018
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837641639
Format: Paperback
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Jasper van Buuren, born in 1974, is an independent philosopher based in Berlin with publications in the fields of phenomenology, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of the good life. He obtained his master's degree in philosophy in Amsterdam and Leuven. After several visiting studentships in the United States he received his PhD in Potsdam.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface 7
Introduction 9
Chapter 1: Dennett and Phenomenology 37
Chapter 2: Materialism and Its Critics 59
Chapter 3: Hermeneutical Considerations 93
Chapter 4: Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied Subject 137
Chapter 5: Plessner's Philosophy of Eccentric Positionality 185
Chapter 6: Physical Reality and the Phenomenal World 219
Chapter 7: Perceptual Illusions 255
Bibliography 289
Author Index 307