由胡塞爾所開創的現象學,認為我們在認識世界的時候,只應該對我們直接體驗到的現象進行描述,但不主張解釋現象的因果關係,應該把一切經驗、知識或先入之見擱在一邊,以免影響我們對事物的體驗。
而一九四五年,梅洛-龐蒂所出版的《知覺現象學》(Phenomenology of Perception),更成為現象學哲學運動史上的一個里程碑——《知覺現象學》的基本論點是:知覺是一切認識活動的開始,是其他認識活動的基礎。
梅洛-龐蒂繼承了胡塞爾的現象學,強調重要的是描述,而不是解釋。有些學者認為,梅洛-龐蒂不僅發展了胡塞爾的現象學哲學,且比胡塞爾更清晰地闡明了現象學的論點,將他譽為胡塞爾的最好解釋者。
Foreword, Taylor Carman Introduction, Claude Lefort Preface Introduction: Classical Prejudices and the Return to Phenomena I. Sensation II. Association and the Projection of Memories III. Attention and Judgment IV. The Phenomenal Field Part 1: The Body 1. The Body as an Object and Mechanistic Physiology 2. The Experience of the Body and Classical Psychology 3. The Spatiality of the One’s Own Body and Motility 4. The Synthesis of One’s Own Body 5. The Body as a Sexed Being 6. Speech and the Body as Expression Part 2: The Perceived World 7. Sensing 8. Space 9. The Thing and the Natural World 10. Others and the Human World Part 3: Being-For-Itself and Being-In-The-World 11. The Cogito 12. Temporality 13. Freedom Original Bibliography Bibliography of English Translations cited Additional Work Cited Index