Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2022
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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.
This video was created just for our RUclips subscribers (thank you for your support!) based on Professor Anderson's Phenomenology course.
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This is litterally embodied cognition. This man predicted the neurosciences discoveries of the last 3 decades !
The “L” word in this comment has not only tainted a fine statement, but also reveals the lack of consciousness of the commenter, sadly.
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Ouch 😣
You must be REALLY fun after a few drinks 🍺
@@angelozachos8777 Haha! I don’t drink. Just trying to deprogram the mindless habit of an overused word one person at a time.
@@gooosedogI think you meant conscientiousness, not consciousness.
@@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.
Exactly 💯❤
Merleau-Ponty! My favorite electric jazz violinist of the 1970s!
This is such an exceptional and clear presentation of these complex ideas. Thank you!
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.
This is a remarkably clear, articulate and insightful presentation. I enjoyed it very much.
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 !
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
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 :)
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.
I am loving your bite sized bits philosophers. I spent my thirties watching Michael Sugrue and Darren Staloff on VHS.
Another grand slam by Prof. Ellie !!
So much to learn, thank you for this. I really enjoyed listening to your videos while I workout.thank you
You had me at "... is just a bunch of pseudo problems" 😁
Terrific video! Thank you for making these!
Wonderful synopsis! Thank you for making this. (Also love seeing that you have Sources of The Self on your shelf).
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.
Such an awesome channel - wow! I really appreciate the drive to showcase philosophical ideas in a more digestible format!😄🙌🏼
you have worded it all so beautifully. thank you.
Thank you for bringing these ideas to this often mind-numbing platform!
Thanks fellow being for sharing awareness and insights out loud with us
I love the way you clearly explain and illustrate. Thanks!
The way you teach is unique, you have my complete admiration! Thanks for the knowledge
One of your best videos. Love Ponty, thank you!
MY NEW FAVORITE CHANNEL. Thank you.
I love watching your videos.. thanks for introducing us to these theories ❤
Youre a great speaker with great recall!
Great summary. Thank you.
Thanks for your patience , and your contribution.
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!
Interesting, Ponty's take on space reminds me of how space is described in the Dao De Jing, a text over 2000 years old!
Thank you so much Prof.
Such an effusive speaker. Beautiful
Beautifully presented
You are such a wonderful teacher Ellie....the level and clarity of your exposition is wonderful 👍😊🌹...I hope someday to experience you personally.....
These videos are amazing. Phenomenal presentation 🙂
Thank you for the video, great explanation.
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!
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!
Three minutes in and I am hooked
Great video
Thank you so much, wanted to read this.. Thank you, thanks youtube for reminding
A clear and correct treatment of the ground of perception.
Thanks for the summary. Getting back into phenomenology now.
Thank you this was an excellent presentation ☮
Superb introduction! Thank you.
Thanks for the clear discussion.
Will need to consider his work carefully. Ty for the introduction!
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.
Clear and understandable!!! Thanks.
Excellent presentation. Thank you for sharing
Very precise!! Thank you
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.
this is very well done
Very helpful! 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.
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.
Great explainer, subscribed!
I just want to say you are wonderful. I perceive that very easily!!
Really interesting, thank you!
this saved my life (this week anyway) Thank you!!! just awesome
Great lecture on a great podcast. Immediately subscribed ! From one prof to another, nice job !
Merleau-Ponty curb-stomps Descartes.
Congratulations! Your channel is amazing. Please talk about Mark Fisher's "Capitalist realism". Great work!
Respect Mam. Great Explaination.
Excellent introduction!
This is class, thank you.
Thanks!
Super nice presentation, thanks/ M
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…
I am on a binge watch of philosophy videos!
I love your Work.
She must really know the material if she can explain it so easily, nice!
This is a strong show. Perhaps one of my preferred philosophers also. Of coarse, they all add something to the brew.
this was great. very clear.
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
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.
wow, well done!
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.
thank you
You killed it ❤❤
You are a genius
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!!!
really helpful. thq
THANK YOU
Sources of the self on the shelf and a discussion of MMP... well, I think I like where this is headed.
No idea why this was recommended to me, but that blazer is wonderful.
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.
Great theme and walked through in depth. Thanks. Precise name for the _ just self labeled me..
Great video. YT algo served me well today.
I would say Eugene Gendlin is one of the most important philosophers ever as he tackles this profoundly
Some profundities clearly and efficiently, even elegantly, delivered.
Are these RUclips talks the same audio on the audio only podcasts?
Thanks! No, the audio podcast is a co-hosted conversational podcast of 45-55 minutes per episode, where we do deeper dives into particular topics and discuss what philosophers have to say about said topic, including debating their views. We have an upcoming episode on Touch that discusses Merleau-Ponty's views of the topic, as well as Aristotle's, Husserl's, and others'!
EXCELLENT !!!!! ❤
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.
Man, I i remember hearing about Husserl from Sartre in "Being and Nothingness". This fills in some holes. Thank you prof!
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.
As a mathematician I think kinesthetically about problems. Weirdly, it's a kind of perception that still works for abstract things, for me. Like imagining groups in the forms of tiles that can be manipulated by my imaginary hands, or choices made by pointing during a counting argument. But then if I'm thinking out from the body when I do math, what is it I'm perceiving? 🤔
For Merleau-Ponty the body schema is what allows us to move about the world; when I'm driving I pick up my cup without looking at it or really even thinking about it and draw it to my mouth--I can do it because I've done it so many times before. Crucially, though, Merleau-Ponty argues that our bodies can use our embodied habits of movement to do new, albeit similar, things. He calls this "reckon[ing] with the possible." And it undergirds what he calls "motor intentionality." By motor intentionality, Merleau-Ponty means to assert that when we think about things consciously, we are drawing upon an embodied knowledge that precedes our conscious thinking of that thing. Your description of imagining math is actually a perfect example of what he's talking about with "motor intentionality." For him, abstract thinking is derivative of embodied habits of movement. So even when you're doing something abstract you're still thinking of bodies. And even though they may be impersonal hands and blank tiles, they are actually derived from your perceptual experience with hands and tiles in real life. And your mind can imagine things that you've never done or perceived before because of "reckoning with the possible," wherein you can imagine things that are different because they retain many of the same traits as the things you have experienced.
Thanks. Very similar to the book that I am reading now, being and nothingness.
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
Abstraction is a question of the realism of the structure of say seeing the world landscape. So for example writing (scripts) can’t reproduce connectivity, but seeing can’t reproduce outside the layering of the retina. So much of the struggle of phenomenology of knowing is the realism of ‘layered’ connectivity. Idealism is a reference to the interiority of knowledge content inside a neural network and the challenges of connecting that to the outside. This is saying that language performance is a realism stream that flows between people. This is sort of acknowledged in computing as - ‘Explainable Artificial Intelligence’ -. Some abstract idea say for example a generic object, or ‘Thing’ needs to be linked (explained) from one person to the next. This is a realism flow and is about object/thingness realism, but language connects things, which is a generalization or connectivism of the whole of things as a flow through the body in a life world.
Nice presentation. I mostly agree with him, I think he was opposed to people who exaggerated or over reported philosophy or made unrealistic claims.
Thanks