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Lived Body and Environment
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In this article, the authors develop Merleau-Ponty's analysis further by questioning his account of the body on the issues of body perception, and the body's relation to its environment.Abstract:
Merleau-Ponty developed a phenomenology of the body that promoted a non-dualistic account of human existence. In this paper I intend to develop Merleau-Ponty's analysis further by questioning his account of the body on the issues of body perception, and the body's relation to its environment. To clarify these issues I draw from both the phenomenological tradition and recent psychological investigations.read more
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