Merleau-Ponty - Priest, Stephen (Routledge, 1998)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-304) and index
I. - Life and Works - 1 - Student and intellectual - 2 - The Structure of Behaviour - 3 - The Phenomenology of Perception - 4 - Professor and man of letters - 5 - The Visible and the Invisible -- - II. - Phenomenology - 1 - Existence and essence - 2 - The natural attitude and its suspension - 3 - Being-in-the-world - 4 - The critique of science - 5 - Phenomenological reflection -- - III. - Existentialism - 1 - Hegel's existentialism - 2 - Being and knowing - 3 - Being-towards-death - 4 - Merleau-Ponty and Sartre - 5 - The synthesis of being and nothingness -- - IV. - The Body - 1 - The body-subject - 2 - Being my body - 3 - Merleau-Ponty and the mind-body problem - 4 - The flesh of the world - 5 - Who looks into the mirror? -- - V. - Perception - 1 - Perceiving wholes
In this wide-ranging and penetrative study, Stephen Priest uses clear and direct language to explain the thoughts and ensuing importance of one of the greatest contemporary thinkers