Speaking with Riemer at SIGGRAPH, he talks a lot about French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception book from 1945 that talks about the role of the body in perception.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans. Donald Landes), Phenomenology of Perception (first published 1945; Routledge, 2011) Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sense and Non-Sense (first published 1948; Northwestern ...

A sixtieth Anniversary commemoration of the publication of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Masterpiece; A Franco-British Conference, June 17 and 18, 2005, Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot, ...