| Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature Contributor(s): Johnson, Galen A. (Author), Carbone, Mauro (Author), Saint Aubert, Emmanuel de (Author) |
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ISBN: 082328770X ISBN-13: 9780823287703 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801.93 |
| LCCN: 2019058988 |
| Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.91 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature. From Proust, Merleau-Ponty developed his conception of "sensible ideas," from Claudel, his conjoining of birth and knowledge as "co-naissance," from Val ry came "implex" or the "animal of words" and the "chiasma of two destinies." Literature also provokes the questions of expression, metaphor, and truth and the meaning of a Merleau-Pontian poetics. The poetic of Merleau-Ponty is, the book argues, a poetic of the flesh, a poetic of mystery, and a poetic of the visible in its relation to the invisible. Ultimately, theoretical figures or "figuratives" that appear at the threshold between philosophy and literature enable the possibility of a new ontology. What is at stake is the very meaning of philosophy itself and its mode of expression. |
Contributor Bio(s): Saint Aubert, Emmanuel de: - Emmanuel de Saint Aubert is Research Director at the Husserl Archives in Paris (National Center for Scientific Research, École Normale Supérieure). His research bears most particularly on the work of Merleau-Ponty, re-reading him through the lens of an overall knowledge of numerous unpublished writings. He has published most notably: Du lien des êtres aux éléments de l'être. Merleau-Ponty au tournant des années 1945-1951 (Vrin, 2004); Le scénario cartésien. Recherches sur la formation et la cohérence de l'intention philosophique de Merleau-Ponty (Vrin, 2005); Vers une ontologie indirecte. Sources et enjeux critiques de l'appel à l'ontologie chez Merleau-Ponty (Vrin, 2006); Être et chair I. Du corps au désir: l'habilitation ontologique de la chair (Vrin, 2013).Johnson, Galen A.: - Galen Johnson is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island and General Secretary (Executive Director) of the Merleau-Ponty Circle. He is the author of The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics (Northwestern, 2010).Carbone, Mauro: - Mauro Carbone is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the Faculté de Philosophie of the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and a Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the founder and the co-editor of the journal Chiasmi International. Trilingual Studies concerning Merleau-Ponty's Thought. Influenced by phenomenology, in particular by Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, his present researches focus on the connections between philosophy and contemporary visual experience. Among his recent publications: The Flesh of Images. Merleau-Ponty between Painting and Cinema, SUNY Press 2015; Être morts ensemble: l'événement du 11 septembre 2001, MetisPresses 2013; An Unprecedented Deformation: Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas, SUNY Press 2010. His most recent book is titled Philosophy-screens. From Cinema to Digital Revolution (SUNY Press 2019). |