Merleau-Ponty

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This seminar will involve an extended investigation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s treatment of embodied experience in his Phenomenology of Perception. We will also examine his modifications of Husserl and Heidegger’s classical accounts of phenomenology. Further, some time will be spent comparing Merleau-Ponty’s treatment with similar formulations in Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. Finally, in consultation with students’ varying interests, we will discuss subsequent challenges and developments to the account, including Merleau-Ponty‘s own later work.