Merleau-Ponty, the prominent phenomenologist of the 20th century has noted the phenomenology of perception. He argued that perception is a corporal (physical) phenomenon. In other words, it is the body which percieves not the mind. The preset study is an attempt based on Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of perception and corporeal sensibility to highlight the importance of human situatedness expre...

By rupturing and breaking away from Cartesianistic theories which have been indicating to disembodied approach, in recent years a kind of turning point from focusing on mind to attention to the body has been emerged, and embodiment has found very considerable presence in contemporary theories of education. Maurice Merleau-ponty, French phenomenologist philosopher, is known as one of the main ex...

the aim of this study was to identify the problems of translating markedness structures from english to persian in order to look closely at what possible difficulties translators may face. it also seeks to probe the strategies applied accordingly by iranian translators in translating them. from three translation of blindness novel, the sentences with marked structures were elicited and also the...

In his courses on Nature, the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty clearly does not agree with Kant's antropocentrism. In particular the Kantian notion of the disinterestedness of aesthetic perception is untenable in an aesthetics of nature which is inspired by Merleau-Ponty's thought. Nature and human embodiment are seen as separated in this Kantian tradition. In Merleau-Ponty’s pheno...

in his courses on nature, the french phenomenologist maurice merleau-ponty clearly does not agree with kant's antropocentrism. in particular the kantian notion of the disinterestedness of aesthetic perception is untenable in an aesthetics of nature which is inspired by merleau-ponty's thought. nature and human embodiment are seen as separated in this kantian tradition. in merleau-ponty’s pheno...

this study attempts to investigate the effect of peers’ revision in comparison to that of the teacher, and whether peers’ comments and teachers’ comments facilitate students’ revision? if yes, which one is more effective? also attempts have been made to see which aspects of language are more highlighted by peers versus teachers when commenting. besides, it is investigating the student’s attitud...

From the beginning of photography, various views were presented about the relationship between the body and photography, most of which focused on body as the subject of photography. Although such views address significant aspects of photography, very few studies have concentrated on the photographer’s body in creating works of art. Focusing on the concept of bodily perception, which is a bodily...