Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception
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Professor Ellie Anderson, co-host of Overthink philosophy podcast, introduces Maurice Merleau-Ponty's approach to phenomenology and key concepts from it, including the lived body, direct description of experience, oriented space vs. objective space, and the primacy of perception. To learn more, read Merleau-Ponty's 1945 classic The Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Donald A. Landes.
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This is litterally embodied cognition. This man predicted the neurosciences discoveries of the last 3 decades !
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@@michaelseanderry If the “L” word were considered profane, than yes, conscientiousness would be adequate. But what I am referring to is sheep mentality.
You should have at least 100K of subscribers. What you are doing here is exceptional, please never stop!
I am sure you meant at least 1 million.
100k has been reached :)
Yes, it's good to see philosophy being part of popculture, in a good way. Not as forgotten and isolated discipline.
This is such an exceptional and clear presentation of these complex ideas. Thank you!
Merleau-Ponty! My favorite electric jazz violinist of the 1970s!
So much to learn, thank you for this. I really enjoyed listening to your videos while I workout.thank you
you have worded it all so beautifully. thank you.
Thanks fellow being for sharing awareness and insights out loud with us
Thank you for bringing these ideas to this often mind-numbing platform!
Youre a great speaker with great recall!
I love the way you clearly explain and illustrate. Thanks!
Wonderful synopsis! Thank you for making this. (Also love seeing that you have Sources of The Self on your shelf).
MY NEW FAVORITE CHANNEL. Thank you.
One of your best videos. Love Ponty, thank you!
Beautifully presented
Thank you so much Prof.
I love watching your videos.. thanks for introducing us to these theories ❤
Such an effusive speaker. Beautiful
Such an awesome channel - wow! I really appreciate the drive to showcase philosophical ideas in a more digestible format!😄🙌🏼
Thank you for the video, great explanation.
The way you teach is unique, you have my complete admiration! Thanks for the knowledge
These videos are amazing. Phenomenal presentation 🙂
Terrific video! Thank you for making these!
I just came across your channel and subscribed on Spotify. This is great! Merleau-Ponty seems underrated as a philosopher, but I really love his thoughts on an embodied philosophy.
Thanks for your patience , and your contribution.
Great summary. Thank you.
Thanks for the summary. Getting back into phenomenology now.
Thank you this was an excellent presentation ☮
Will need to consider his work carefully. Ty for the introduction!
Thanks so much for making all of this philosophical clarity and understanding of influential thinkers available to everybody and for free, liberated from the confines of the academy! You enrich humanity rather than just students and academics.
You are such a wonderful teacher Ellie....the level and clarity of your exposition is wonderful 👍😊🌹...I hope someday to experience you personally.....
Superb introduction! Thank you.
Clear and understandable!!! Thanks.
I just want to say you are wonderful. I perceive that very easily!!
I am loving your bite sized bits philosophers. I spent my thirties watching Michael Sugrue and Darren Staloff on VHS.
This is a remarkably clear, articulate and insightful presentation. I enjoyed it very much.
Thanks for the refresher! Was introduced to Merleau-Ponty through a uni elective and Phenomenology made instant sense to me. His radically straight-forward take was also very inspiring as a 20 something struggling how to make sense of the mumbo jumbo sea of consciousness studies. Kudos Maurice for being relevant almost 80 years later!
this saved my life (this week anyway) Thank you!!! just awesome
Hi Dr. Anderson. Love this, aligned with my current understandings that challenge my assumption that the mind knows the world but rather my body expresses itself as mind / conceptual thought. Reminds me of Eugene Gendlen and focusing/ felt sense knowing. Thank you for these!
this is very well done
Respect Mam. Great Explaination.
Very helpful! Thank you👍🏽😊
Congratulations! Your channel is amazing. Please talk about Mark Fisher's "Capitalist realism". Great work!
Three minutes in and I am hooked
Great video
Thanks . Phenomenology is certainly a legit concept that unfortunately is often overlooked by the average reader . I have a friend who is focused on it for her PhD in psychology .
Thanks again for your usual articulate presentation of complex subjects in a short time !
This is class, thank you.
Great explainer, subscribed!
Very precise!! Thank you
I tried so hard to understand phenomenology in a simple way and here it is... Really good explanation by a very beautiful and cool person, as you seem. Keep the good work!
Really interesting, thank you!
I greatly value her explanation because it will be helpful to me in writing my philosophical paper on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Perception. I believe that anyone can learn because of the straightforward approach in which she presents it; in fact, I am one of those people. Thank ou so much.
It's so good! But I wish it could be little more elaborative with more examples. Anyway, thank you so much for bringing us these ideas for us.
A clear and correct treatment of the ground of perception.
I am on a binge watch of philosophy videos!
Excellent presentation. Thank you for sharing
Thank you so much, wanted to read this.. Thank you, thanks youtube for reminding
Excellent introduction!
I love your Work.
You just fucked my mind up. I had to share this with the only philosophy professor I know. I await her comments. Thank you for giving me something above mundane to think about.
This is a strong show. Perhaps one of my preferred philosophers also. Of coarse, they all add something to the brew.
Great lecture on a great podcast. Immediately subscribed ! From one prof to another, nice job !
Merleau-Ponty curb-stomps Descartes.
You had me at "... is just a bunch of pseudo problems" 😁
Thanks!
THANK YOU
Thank you, it took me years to grasp what u elaborated in few mins.
Don't worry, it took Dr. Anderson years, too (hence the Ph.D.)! Our hope is that this will help those getting into this study orient themselves, and we're glad you found it helpful in light of all the work you've done so far
Interesting, Ponty's take on space reminds me of how space is described in the Dao De Jing, a text over 2000 years old!
Super nice presentation, thanks/ M
Another grand slam by Prof. Ellie !!
Thanks for the great content. Overthink for me is being dogged, and not letting go of my ADHD perhaps not quite motility. Operating outside of the common narrative familial bubbles of this world can let us see at least part way into the dimensions of water, air, soil, space and life. People remains a work in progress, but this helps me fill in another part of the puzzle.
Quite nice summary of Merleau-Ponty thinking. Thanks !!..That make me understand more his ideas. That ideas remind me what is found in the book “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience”
by Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson and Francisco Varela. Hope this can be included in this place.
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this was great. very clear.
I like listening to you. I don’t always understand but it’s a start. I do have one problem. You have Clarice Lispector’s collected stories on the shelf behind you and I love them so much I start drifting away thinking of “The Smallest Woman in the World” and other stories. I find it refreshing to know you read her stories. Thanks for helping me understand so much.
Good catch! I noticed it only after reading your comment. Great book, great author and of course this video is amazing as well :)
Great theme and walked through in depth. Thanks. Precise name for the _ just self labeled me..
No idea why this was recommended to me, but that blazer is wonderful.
Man, I i remember hearing about Husserl from Sartre in "Being and Nothingness". This fills in some holes. Thank you prof!
I didn't know about Merleau-Ponty or his work, so thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. It seems very similar to the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurit, although K does not philosophize but stays with facts from our day-to-day experiences. He says that the separation of the "subject" and the "object", which he argues is created by the movement of thoughts. This divisive thought at a psychological level creates a lot of conflict. The observer is the observed, he says. He further doesn't believe in any methodology (as methodology itself is a construction of thoughts and not facts) to overcome this division but focuses on direct perception, which requires one to understand this problem without the help of any ideas, philosophers or guru. Depending on the method, idea or someone else for K entails that one is acting from the past (psychological knowledge is always in the past and thus dead), which means there is no new experience. Perception, which comes from observation, for him, is an act of the present where there is no centre because the centre (I, ego, my psyche, whatever) is itself a thought from the past and creates division. So, in perception, there is quietness as there is no movement.
really helpful. thq
EXCELLENT !!!!! ❤
I would say Eugene Gendlin is one of the most important philosophers ever as he tackles this profoundly
She must really know the material if she can explain it so easily, nice!
I've been a huge fan of MP for decades. This is a good, brief, introduction to his ideas. You might mention, however, that at the end of his life (1961) he was working on a radically new conceptualization which he called "the flesh". He only wrote the beginning of thebook before he died, which is really unfortunate for us. I think that if he had lived and finished it he would have eclipsed Heidegger in his influence. As it stands, he's still extremely important, probably the purest furtherance of Husserl's ideas in in ideas 1 and 2.
His Visible and the Invisible is like Heidegger's Turn, just without the mysticism and poetry that Heidegger became towards the later stages of his thinking. If you want to know what MP was getting at, read Deleuze's The Logic of Sense. In it, the same concepts are reorientated but the key characteristics remain - that reversible and asymmetrical aspects of Flesh/Sense.
Thanks. Very similar to the book that I am reading now, being and nothingness.
Imagination brings us back to the world, it is the third distinction that grasps the bull between the horns. Consciousness at times gets in the way of the imagination, the first time we are surprised about something, it happens because consciousness was put on hold for a bit in order to get the fresh surprise of those discoveries which we are going to have. I think about egocentricicy, in his terms, and that it is a space or background for consciousness to emerge in action. Thank you for your talk.
Yay MP!!
Great! 👍 One thought though…; Allo- vs egocentric regarding geographical space, and communication (explicitly). If my wife is telling me about say, a new shop, she’ll try to convey its location in an egocentric way. I.e. her perception of where it is located relative to another shop, a distinct green house or a huge tree nearby. Being who I am (and I love my wife to bits) I don’t ever seem to understand her directions - even after 17 years… The allocentric AND in this case objective and “boring” solution is an address and a map, paper or Google’s. THEN I get it immediately. Fun fact, in reverse she is very puzzled if I show her a map telling her about… well, a new shop. To me it seems that her perception focuses around the experience she had visiting the shop, whereas I focus on where it’s located, and an objective way of sharing just that. My own experience of the shop is just mine, and I can’t really expect even my wife to share everything about it. At the same time, my attitude opens up to her not having to carry my bias into her experience. So, in communication, objectivity has its place, I think…
Im glad David Abram's The Spell of the Sensous brought me here. Merleau Ponty's teachings (only what I have read) has changed my view of places , interactions, and people.
If you're into Abram, you might enjoy the podcast episode where we discuss that book! www.overthinkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-33
Very interesting to see the connections between Pont y’a phenomenology, John Dewey’s theory of experience, and current work in Active Inference, Active Externalism, and 4E cognition. Philosophy is love, philosophy is life.
YES!!!
Sources of the self on the shelf and a discussion of MMP... well, I think I like where this is headed.
Another great video. I'm going to read Merleau-Ponty, it seems to be the missing piece in my research.
I'll wait for the movie :)
Thank you for this excellent overview of phenomenology. Along with its younger sibling, embodied cognition, I consider it "Western Zen."
i seem to fall into dualism (world and language). but this video gave me floating ideas of triads.
excellent
Ah! Don't simply derive meaning based on sitting back and watching the world go by, but interact with it, and experience how it interacts with you, then and only then a phenomenological perspective is achieved.
I'm the FIRST COMMENTOR!! Great philosophy from Ponty! Well expounded by Ellie! This world doesn't exist without living beings... We are the ones who give essence to the world.
Do you perceive the other animals as living beings worthy of moral consideration?
@berniv7375 yes I do, eg a "good" tiger might hesitate to kill more than it needs. But anyway, Ponty main point is consciousness due to life, so I think even a germ creates consciousness around it just by being around, no matter how minuscule it is. Morality shouldn't be the key issue in this context, consciousness is.
This just showed up on my feed less than 24 hours after the books title caught my eye as I saw it in an episode of the BBC adaptation of 'The City and The City'. Eerie.
Move yourself
You always live your life
Never thinking of the future
Prove yourself
You are the move you make
Take your chances win or loser
See yourself
You are the steps you take
You and you - and that's the only way
Shake - shake yourself
You're every move you make
So the story goes
In phenomenology, it seems to me, literature and philosophy are closer than in any other thought. The phenomenological reduction is very near to the epiphany in which the character has a vision of his own conflict, of the situation in which he finds himself, as something that belongs to him but which also has an existence of its own. The idea of destiny does not seem very distant to me.
Please make one for Husserl !!!