Index‘a priori’ 8–10aesthetics 28–31, 95–7affective meaning 60ambiguity 28, 31–2, 88–9, 107–8anger 26–7, 83–5animals 22–5, 69–77anxiety 28, 88art 28–31; ‘classical’ art 17–19,51; modern art 12–13, 19, 49;and perception 93–101;see alsoaesthetics, paintingBachelard, G. 65, 76Balzac, H. 111Benda, J. 49, 110–11Berkeley, G. 7Blanchot, M. 89, 101body 26, 63; and mind 81–6; andperception 6–13, 62; relationto space 56brain damage 24Bremond, H. 100Breton, A. 66Burke, E. 32Camus, A. 2, 14; <strong>The</strong> Myth <strong>of</strong>Sisyphus 117n; Le Premier Homme115n; see also CombatCézanne, P. 13, 18–19, 32, 51–3,62, 64, 95–6, 111, 113children 70–3cinema 97–8Claudel, P. 63, 76–7Combat 4Descartes 25–7, 16, 81–6; onanimals 70–1, 77; on madness23; Meditations 23; mind/bodydualism 25–7, 81–6; primaryand secondary qualities 21; asrationalist 8; on the senses 14,41; wax example 41, 66dreams 63, 73, 76École Normale Supérieure 3Einstein, A. 18embodiment see bodyempiricism 7–9ethics 27–8fallibilism 32–3film 30, 97–8123
freedom 27–8Freud 76Galileo 21geometry 18, 50–1Gestalt psychology 3, 25;perceptual constancies in19–20; see also Köhler,WolfgangGoldstein, K. 10gravity 18God: death <strong>of</strong> 32; and humanreason 72Goethe 60Hegel 109history 108honey 60–1humanism 28, 89Hume, D. 7, 32; Treatise <strong>of</strong> HumanNature 23Husserl, E. 3, 8, 27; and the‘natural attitude’ 12, 39; rejectspsychologism 11Institut National de l’Audiovisuelvii–ixintentionality 6, 10Kafka 89–90Kant 8–10Köhler, Wolfgang 25, 75language 27, 30, 100Lautréamont 76Lefort, C. 5light 40literature 30, 100–1Locke, J. 21Logical Positivism 7–8madness 70–3Malebranche, N. 55–6, 77Mallarmé, S. 30, 100–1Marxism 5medicine 71–2<strong>Merleau</strong>-<strong>Ponty</strong>, M.: <strong>The</strong> Adventures<strong>of</strong> the Dialectic 5; analyticphilosophy’s response to 6;background to radio lectures <strong>of</strong>vii–ix; interest in painting <strong>of</strong> 1;and Kant 9; life <strong>of</strong> 2–6;Phenomenology <strong>of</strong> <strong>Perception</strong> 1, 4, 7,10, 12–13, 19, 24, 27; Sense andNon-Sense 5; Signs 5; <strong>The</strong> Structure<strong>of</strong> Behaviour 3, 10, 25; <strong>The</strong> Visibleand the Invisible 5, 10; see also LesTemps ModernesMichotte, A. 74modernity 13, 23; as decline?106–13; difficulty in 49;modern and ‘classical’ 31–3,105–13; modern humanism28; rediscovery <strong>of</strong> world <strong>of</strong>perception in 39; see also art,paintingmusic 30, 99Occupation, <strong>The</strong> 3, 4other people 25–8, 86–7painting 17–19, 29, 93, 112;‘classical’ distinction betweenoutline and colour in 51; andperspective 17, 18, 52–4;representational and abstract29, 95–6Paulhan, J. 5index
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