Maurice Merleau-Ponty's masterwork arguing that the body is the subject of perception — not an object controlled by a disembodied mind — and that all perception is grounded in embodied, pre-reflective engagement with the world.
The phenomenal body (corps propre) is the primary subject of experience; motor intentionality — the body's practical orientation to the world — is irreducible to representational cognition; space and time are constituted through bodily action.
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