Body and Reality : An Examination of the Relationships Between the Body Proper, Physical Reality, and the Phenomenal World Starting From Plessner and Merleau-Ponty

Is 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 realis...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jasper van Buuren
Format: Book
Published: transcript 2018
Subjects:
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost