Merleau-Ponty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415308649)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty is known and celebrated as a renowned phenomenologist and is considered a key figure in the existentialist movement.

In this wide-ranging and penetrative study, Stephen Priest engages Merleau-Ponty across the full range of his philosophical thought. He considers Merleau-Ponty's writings on the problems of the body, perception, space, time, subjectivity, freedom, language, other minds, physical objects, art and being. Priest addresses Merleau-Ponty's thought in connection with Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. He uses clear and direct language to explain the thoughts of and the ensuing importance of one of the greatest contemporary thinkers.

Philosophy students and scholars alike will find great pleasure in this fascinating exploration of the writings and ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Author: Stephen Priest
ISBN-10: 041530864X
ISBN-13: 9780415308649
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2003
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.06w x 0.75d