Comment on Book on Perception by Barbaras

Abstract

In the “Essay on sensorily perceived objects” contained in his book Perception, R. Barbaras revisits past philosophies (empiricism, intellectualism, Husserl, and Bergson), in order to propose a philosophy of perception that would be more acceptable to him. There is still apparent effort to find some origin, bases, and original dimension of perception; thus the author in this way gradually criticizes older approaches. He reaches a concept of perception as certain interplay of the perceiving and the perceived, life and world, that he describes as a style of world being.