The text “The Phenomenology of Perception” (1945/2012), written by the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, represents one of the most important statements of the phenomenological tradition after the main works of its founder Edmund Husserl. In this seminar, students will be confronted with some of its themes that, in the last 70 years, heavily shaped the modus operandi of various philosophical and scientific disciplines, from philosophy of mind, feminist theories, and political sciences to psychological, psychiatric, media and sport sciences. A particular focus will be dedicated to the relationship between the concept of embodiment and the one of experience. By combining philosophical and psychological insights, Merleau-Ponty shows how a phenomenological understanding of embodiment is necessary to conceptually grasp how we inhabit and experience the environment as encountered in our daily interactions. Following Merleau-Ponty, the body does not only determine how we experience depth, height, and colours but is also directly responsible for the emergence of a meaningful world related to our potentialities and habits. Because our perspectives exhibits an inherent bodily nature, Merleau-Ponty claims the world is not cognized by a detached “I think” as Descartes famously argued. The bodily subject requires to be instead described as an “I Can”, skillfully and pre-reflectively confronted with an environment that demands or repulse her from behaving in a certain way. It follows that the notion of embodiment Merleau-Ponty is interested in is not the body as mechanistically understood by the natural sciences (Körper) but a lived body (Leib) that exhibits a psychological, social, political, and historical dimension. Other themes faced in the text include (but are not limited to) the role of psychiatric disorders in experience, language, the notion of intentionality, object perception, and intersubjectivity.