Description
The first English edition, first impression of Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Octavo, xxi, 466pp. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. “First Published in England in 1962” on copyright page. Previous owner’s name on the front free endpaper. Faint dust remnant along top of text block, internally clean. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, faint soiling along the spine, light shelf wear. A near fine example.
Translated from the French by Colin Smith, this work was first published in France in 1945 as Phénoménologie de la perception. It remains Merleau-Ponty’s most influential book, developing his account of perception, embodiment, consciousness, and the lived body.
