| Sense and Non-Sense Contributor(s): Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (Author), Dreyfus, Hubert L. (Translator), Dreyfus, Patricia Allen (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810101661 ISBN-13: 9780810101661 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1992 Annotation: Written when Merleau-Ponty's interest had just broadened from epistemology and the behavioral sciences to include aesthetics, ethics, political theory, and politics, Sense and Nonsense is the best introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought, for it both summarizes his previous insights and gives them their widest range of application. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 64023443 |
| Series: Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existenti |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.06" W x 9.07" (0.69 lbs) 193 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written between 1945 and 1947, the essays in Sense and Non-Sense provide an excellent introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought. They summarize his previous insights and exhibit their widest range of application-in aesthetics, ethics, politics, and the sciences of man. Each essay opens new perspectives to man's search for reason. The first part of Sense and Non-Sense, "Arts," is concerned with Merleau-Ponty's concepts of perception, which were advanced in his major philosophical treatise, Phenomenology of Perception. Here the analysis is focused and enriched in descriptions of the perceptual world of Cezanne, the encounter with the Other as expressed in the novels of Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre, and the gestalt quality of experience brought out in the film art form. In the second part, "Ideas," Merleau-Ponty shows how the categories of the phenomenology of perception can be understood as an outgrowth of the behavioral sciences and how a model of existence based on perception sensitizes us to the insights and limitations of previous philosophies and suggests constructive criticisms of contemporary philosophy. The third part, "Politics," clarifies the political dilemmas facing intellectuals in postwar France. |