Imagining Bodies: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Imagination

Ontario-based scholar Steeves looks at how French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61), like other Existentialists of his time, explored the impact of the body on how people think about themselves and reality. Among the imaginings he considers are perceptual, fanciful, pathological, and elemental. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR