TY - BOOK AU - Kaushik,Rajiv ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Preface to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: A Re-Introduction SN - 9783031513299 AV - B790-5802 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Continental Philosophy KW - Phenomenology  KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - Phenomenology KW - History of Philosophy N1 - 1: Introduction -- 2: Facts And Essences -- 3: Intentionality -- 4: The Incomplete Reduction -- 5: Phenomenology And Non-Phenomenology -- 6: Conclusion N2 - This book offers a critical re-appraisal of what is perhaps Merleau-Ponty’s most widely read text, the Preface to his Phenomenology of Perception. Although open and enigmatic text, the Preface is still often used to introduce phenomenology in general and Merleau-Ponty’s work specifically to students, scholars in disciplines other than philosophy, and art practitioners. Taking advantage of the fact that many of his course notes have been posthumously published in the last few decades, this book situates the Preface to the Phenomenology of Perception in the context of Merleau-Ponty's later work and shows how it contains many of the threads on which Merleau-Ponty would later pull. In doing so, the book chapters elaborate key themes in the Preface: “Phenomenology and its Paradoxes,” “Phenomenology and its Method,” “Phenomenology and its Incompletion,” “Phenomenology and Non-Phenomenology." Readers will learn about the radicality of Merleau-Ponty’s early articulation of phenomenology, how much it already suggests the profound transformation of phenomenology usually associated with his more mature work. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51329-9 ER -