Table of Contents

Preface, Introduction: Traditional prejudices and the return to Phenomena, 1. The 'Sensation' as a Unit of Experience, 2. 'Association' and the 'Projection of Memories', 3. 'Attention' and 'Judgement', 4. The Phenomenal Field, PART 1: THE BODY: Experience and objective thought. The problem of the body, 1. The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology, 2. The Experience of the Body and Classical Psychology, 3. The Spatiality of One's own Body and Motility, 4. The Synthesis of One's own Body, 5. The Body in its Sexual Being, 6. The Body as Expression, and Speech, PART 2: THE WORLD AS PERCEIVED: The theory of the body is already a theory of perception, 1. Sense Experience, 2. Space, 3. The Thing and the Natural World, 4. Other Selves and the Human World, PART 3: BEING-FOR-ITSELF AND BEING-IN-THE-WORLD, 1. The Cogito, 2. Temporality, 3. Freedom, Bibliography, Index.

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