The Sense of Space (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: August 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780791461839
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Movement (Philosophy); Human Geography; Space perception; Philosophy; Movements - Phenomenology; Mind & Body; Epistemology; 1908-1961; Body, Human (Philosophy); Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,; Phenomenologie de la percept
Description: "The Sense of Space brings together space and body to show that space is a plastic environment, charged with meaning, that reflects the distinctive character of human embodiment in the full range of its moving, perceptual, emotional, expressive, developmental, and social capacities. Drawing on the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Bergson, as well as contemporary psychology to develop a renewed account of the moving perceiving body the book suggests that our sense of space ultimately reflects our ethical relations to other people and to the places we inhabit."--BOOK JACKET.