Todes, Samuel

Body and World

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ISBN 13:: 9780262700825
author:: Todes, Samuel
format:: Paperback
publisher:: MIT Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2001
Pages:: 370
Dimensions:: 22.7 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Genre:: Philosophy
Condition:: New
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Samuel Todes's Body and World explores how our bodily experience unites independent physical nature with subjective experience. This work builds upon the ideas of philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, offering a nuanced account of perception and its relationship to thought. Todes examines the complex structure of the human body, including front/back asymmetry and the need for balance in a gravitational field. He argues that this structure plays a crucial role in shaping our spatiotemporal field of experience and enabling objective knowledge of the world around us. By investigating perception's nonconceptual yet objective forms of judgment, Todes sheds new light on fundamental philosophical questions. This book offers a thought-provoking contribution to contemporary existential phenomenology, one that has implications for fields beyond philosophy, including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and anthropology.

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