Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her current research is on Merleau-Ponty's early philosophy.

"An excellent book. Written in an inviting, jargon-free style, it offers sophisticated argumentation and illuminating commentary on the central philosophical issues at stake in Phenomenology of Perception, without descending into technicalities of interest only to specialists." – Taylor Carman, Barnard College, USA"Komarine Romdenh-Romluc offers an extremely lucid account of Merleau-Ponty’s landmark work, Phenomenology of Perception. She reconstructs Merleau-Ponty’s arguments in an elegant and readily intelligible fashion, and deals clearly and coherently with many of the most difficult aspects his work." – Mark Wrathall, University of California, Riverside, USA

• Introduction 1. Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology 2. Traditional Prejuduces and the Return to Phenomena 3. The Body 4. The World and its Relation to Consciousness 5. Other Selves and the Human World 6. The Mind I - Preception, Action and Emotion 7. The Mind II - Thought 8. Temporality Bibliography Index