03464oam 2200733 c 450 991097824620332120260102090118.09783839441633383944163310.14361/9783839441633(CKB)4340000000264620(MiAaPQ)EBC5346081(DE-B1597)492768(OCoLC)1031963818(DE-B1597)9783839441633(transcript Verlag)9783839441633(Perlego)1461347(EXLCZ)99434000000026462020260102d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBody and RealityAn Examination of the Relationships between the Body Proper, Physical Reality, and the Phenomenal World Starting from Plessner and Merleau-PontyJasper van Buuren1st ed.Bielefeldtranscript Verlag20181 online resource (313 pages)Edition Moderne Postmoderne9783837641639 3837641635 Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Introduction 9 Chapter 1: Dennett and Phenomenology 37 Chapter 2: Materialism and Its Critics 59 Chapter 3: Hermeneutical Considerations 93 Chapter 4: Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied Subject 137 Chapter 5: Plessner's Philosophy of Eccentric Positionality 185 Chapter 6: Physical Reality and the Phenomenal World 219 Chapter 7: Perceptual Illusions 255 Bibliography 289 Author Index 307Is materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience – the phenomenal world – is nothing but an illusion produced in physical reality, notably in the brain? Or is Merleau-Ponty right when he defends the fundamental character of the phenomenal world while rejecting physical realism? Jasper van Buuren addresses these questions by exploring the nature of the body proper in Merleau-Ponty and Plessner, arguing that physical and phenomenal realism are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The argument includes a close examination of the relationships between scientific and pre-scientific perspectives, between living and non-living things, and between humans and animals.van Buuren, Body and RealityAn Examination of the Relationships between the Body Proper, Physical Reality, and the Phenomenal World Starting from Plessner and Merleau-PontyMerleau-PontyPlessnerBodyPhysical RealityPhenomenal WorldRealismPhenomenologyMaterialismPhilosophy of BodyPhilosophical AnthropologyPhilosophyMerleau-PontyPlessnerBodyPhysical RealityPhenomenal WorldRealismPhenomenologyMaterialismPhilosophy of BodyPhilosophical AnthropologyPhilosophy128.6van Buuren Jasper<p>Jasper van Buuren, independent philosopher based in Berlin, Germany</p>aut1888370DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910978246203321Body and Reality4527079UNINA