An extension of the thought of Edmund Husserl, FTP, name this most famous book by Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
One chapter of this book talks of the body as a "sexed being," saying that sexuality is metaphysical but not reducible to the metaphysical drama. The final chapter discusses the ego and its "halo of generality" and comes to the ultimate topic of freedom, which the author argues is always present within a field of possibility. That author rejects "intellectualism" or rationalism in his chapter on "The Cogito," and rejects empiricism as denying the link between object and act. Instead, he argues that "I am my body," that the human body is an expressive space, and shows a radical interdependence between being-in-the-world and being-for-itself. Its author left unfinished his magnum opus The Visible and the Invisible, and published this book three years ►after his The Structure of Comportment. An extension of the thought of Edmund Husserl, FTP, name this most famous book by Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
One chapter of this book talks of the body as a "sexed being," saying that sexuality is metaphysical but not reducible to the metaphysical drama.
The {Phenomenology of Perception} (Phenomenologie de la perception)