Output details

Routledge philosophy guidebook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of perception

This output [item 1] includes a section on Merleau-Ponty's account of agency.

It overlaps partially with: [item 2] Romdenh-Romluc, K. 2011. Agency and embodied cognition. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 111 (1), 79—95

In [item 2] Romdenh-Romluc develops the 2007 account of agency, suggesting how it can be extended to further accommodate the role of thought in action, and also offering a novel defence of the Merleau-Pontyian approach to agency. There is thus a small degree of overlap between items 1 and 2 in the section where Merleau-Ponty's account of action is set out. The sections concerned are as follows.

Item 1, p. 70, para 2, and item 2, p. 79: there is near-duplication of two sentences that outline the traditional account of action.

Item 1, p. 74, first part of para 2, and item 2, p. 89, para 4 – p. 90, first part of para 1: the same ideas are presented in these sections, and there is some near-duplication of text.

Item 1, p. 77, para 1 – p. 78, para 1, and item 2, p. 90, para 2: the same ideas are presented in these sections, and there is some near-duplication of text.

Romdenh-Romluc, K. 2007. 'Merleau-Ponty and the power to reckon with the possible'. In T. Baldwin (ed.) Reading Merleau-Ponty. London: Routledge, pp. 44—58.

All of the material from this 2007, except that appearing in the section entitled 'Dreyfus and intention', was incorporated into this REF output in chapter 3: sections entitled, 'absorbed coping', 'two issues: action generated by thought, and Schneider again', and 'the power to “reckon with the possible”'. There is thus a degree of overlap between these items. Whilst there is no exact duplication of text, the form of words is similar.

Across more than 250 pages, the output assess key themes in Merleau-Ponty philosophy and their relevance to contemporary philosophy. It covers a substantial range of themes and material with chapters focused on each of: Merleau-Ponty's account of phenomenology; the body; the world and its relation to consciousness; other selves; perception, action and emotion; thought, and Temporality. It is the first book to focus exclusively on Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception--regarded as a particularly dense and complex primary source.