num_pages: 220
description: Imagining Bodies demonstrates how Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the body has broad implications for philosophy, aesthetics and the social sciences. By examining Merleau-Ponty's analysis of the body as a dialectic of habituation and creativity, Steeves unveils a deeper relation between self and world that is mediated by images of embodiment. Imagining Bodies is a testament to the importance of the body and the imagination in our perception of reality at a time when the philosophy of the body is associated with metaphysical presence.
language: English
title: Imagining Bodies: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Imagination
titlecomplete: Imagining Bodies: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Imagination
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Univ Pr of New England