Morris, David (2006) Ecstatic Body, Ecstatic Nature: Perception as Breaking With the World. In: Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought. Science and Philosophy (8). VRIN/Mimesis/University of Memphis, pp. 201-217. ISBN 978-88-8483-502-4
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Abstract
I survey some unusual phenomena in which the body seems to be projected into other things. I argue that these phenomena should not be understood as illusions, as erroneous distortions of an objective body, but as indicating that the body is first of all a being absorbed in outside things. The usual questions about perception are thus reversed: the question is not how the outside world is represented in an inside, but how a moving body ecstatically absorbed in things ever breaks out of that absorption. My suggested answer involves movement and has implications for rethinking nature.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Philosophy |
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Authors: | Morris, David |
| Journal or Publication: | Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought |
| Series Name: | Science and Philosophy |
| Date: | 2006 |
| ID Code: | 6447 |
| Deposited By: | DAVID MORRIS |
| Deposited On: | 23 Nov 2009 13:22 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Dec 2010 18:49 |
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