Phenomenology of Perception

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• noema · Mar 20, 2022 · Recommends

  In Search of Lost Time (Proust) -- the definitive portrait of life, memory and experience Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty) -- groundbreaking analysis of "the thickness of things" implicit within perception Labyrinths (Borges) -- masterful explorations of time, thought, infinity... certain passages of this…

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• colorint · Aug 17, 2017 · Recommends

  …a jumble. This opens up onto philosophical traditions that have mostly been obscured behind modern ideas about us being like computers, but you may want to consider something like Merleau-Ponty's The Phenomenology of Perception (or if you're really strong of heart, Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology).

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• edna_piranha · Jul 10, 2010 · Recommends

  If you're interested in phenomenology and/or existentialism and works that are somewhat readable (this is subjective of course), I'd suggest: 1. Maurice Merleau-Ponty - The Phenomenology of Perception 2. Simone de Beauvoir - Ethics of Ambiguity 3. Friedrich Nietzsche - Will to Power I'd highly recommend NOT reading Being and Time by Heidegger - you'll want to stab your eyes out ten times. Outside…

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• noema · Apr 28, 2020 · Recommends

  To this I would add a couple of classic mid century studies on perception: Arnheim's "Art and Visual Perception" (which imo should be mandatory for any UI designer), and Merleau-ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception" (this one requires some extensive background reading, but it's well worth the effort)

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• szemet · Jun 10, 2018 · Mentions

  …another." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy) I'm not sure if they discovered anything that belongs to mainstream science now. (But, for example, I frequently see references to "Phenomenology of Perception: Maurice Merleau-Ponty" here and there, in modern discussions.) I have not really read anything from these authors, (only some Heidegger) so I can't have any respectable opinion on the subject (also…

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• jccalhoun · Feb 6, 2019 · Mentions

  …JL Austin which talks about the power of words to bring things into existence but it really gets into too much detail for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._L._Austin#How_to_Do_Things_... Similarly Phenomenology of Perception by Merleau-Ponty really influenced me but it is really really really long and dense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_of_Perception

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• rayraegah · Apr 21, 2019 · Mentions

  …I've read books largely to complement my thinking, phenomenology and existentialism. Here's what I've read (notable ones): Being and Time – Martin Heidegger The Principle of Reason – Martin Heidegger Phenomenology of Perception – Maurice Merleau-Ponty New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time – Ernesto Laclau Introduction to Metaphysics – Martin Heidegger The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology &…

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