Introduction to Phenomenology Course/Class August 3, 2011

Phenomenology has been, and still remains one of the most significant philosophical movements of the 20th and 21st century, it attempts to take the body and experience seriously, and find the complex inter-relation of body to mind, consciousness and language. In the Phenomenology Merleau-Ponty develops a theory which argues against the understanding of any mental process, thinking, reflecting, imagining, or understanding which is not fundamentally dependent on the way in which the body learns to negotiate with its physical environment. Imagination cannot be disconnected from the seen, there cannot be any mental image which is the solipsistic property of an individual mind, because all images have been constructed from elements of a perceptual world which we all share, through our shared human sensory and perceptual apparatus. Details of this event may be subject to change. Please visit http://www.cce.usyd.edu.au/course/INPY for more information or to register.

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