Embodied Idealism - Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Philosophy (PDF)

Embodied Idealism: Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Philosophy (PDF)

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Joseph C. Berendzen | 2023 | ISBN: 0192874764 | English | 288 pages | True PDF | 4 MB
A novel interpretation of Merleau-Ponty's early work as employing a form of transcendental idealism.
Embodied Idealism argues that Maurice Merleau-Ponty's early thought - primarily as found in The Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception - stands as a form of transcendental idealism. This interpretation runs against the grain of much of the Merleau-Ponty scholarship, and opposing interpretations are not without support. Merleau-Ponty is at points highly critical of idealism in his early works. Also, his emphasis on embodiment would seem to run counter to the idealist view that the mental is central to reality.