Available in time for the 100th anniversary of Merleau-Ponty's birth, this is his classic work of philosophy. He argues that human understanding comes from our bodily experience of the world that we perceive. Merleau-Ponty is one of the Routledge Classics's top 10 bestselling authors Central to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's thought was the idea that human understanding comes from our bodily experience of the world that we perceive. This title provides a guide to a whole universe of experience, from the pursuit of scientific knowledge, through the psychic life of animals to the glories of the art of Paul Cezanne. FOREWORD BY ST HANIE M AS /TD> vii Introduction by Thomas Baldwin 1 1 The World of Perception and the World of Science 31 2 Exploring the World of Perception: Space 37 3 Exploring the World of Perception: Sensory Objects 45 4 Exploring the World of Perception: Animal Life 53 5 Man Seen from the Outside 61 6 Art and the World of Perception 69 7 Classical World, Modern World 77 NOTES 85 INDEX 93