The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics /by Maurice M. Ponty. It is an extremely interesting and valuable text both because it gives the most concise statement ever produced by Merleau-Ponty of his general philosophical position and also because, in the discussion which followed the reading of this paper to the Societe francaise de philosophie, we are given the basic elements of Merleau-Ponty 's response to the major objections his position immediately evokes. The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics