Merleau-Ponty and the art of perception / edited by Duane H. Davis and William S. Hamrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamrick, William S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Perception (Philosophy).

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated perspectives on art and perception based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Although Merleau-Ponty focused almost exclusively on painting in his writings on aesthetics, this collection also considers poetry, literary works, theater, and relationships between art and science. In addition to philosophers, the contributors include a painter, a photographer, a musicologist, and an architect. This widened scope offers important philosophical benefits, testing and providing evidence for the empirical applicability of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetic writings. The central argument is that for Merleau-Ponty the account of perception is also an account of art and vice versa. In the philosopher's writings, art and perception thus intertwine necessarily rather than contingently such that they can only be distinguished by abstraction. As a result, his account of perception and his account of art are organic, interdependent, and dynamic. The contributors examine various aspects of this intertwining across different artistic media, each ingeniously revealing an original perspective on this intertwining.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations, Chapter 5; Preface; References; Part One: Context and Orientation; 1. The Art of Perception; 1. The Phenomenology of Perception and Its Aesthetic Primacy; 2. Merleau-Ponty's Sketch of Cézanne as Phenomenologist; 3. Causeries: Art and the Perceptual World; 4. Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence: Structure, Advent, and Latency; 5. Eye and Mind: Art Situates Ontology; References; 2. Concluding Scientific Postscript; References; Part Two: Interpretations

3. Cohesion and Expression: Merleau-Ponty on CézanneDepth in Cézanne; Depth of Movement and Color; Artistic Style and Expression; 4. Echoes of Brushstrokes; References; 5. From Edmund Husserl's Image Consciousness to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Flesh and Chiasm: The Phenomenological Essence of Image; References; 6. Carnal Language and the Reversibility of Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Merleau-Ponty's Theory of Signs; The Architectural Language Problem: Modernism and Postmodernism; Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Saussure and Perception

la langue : la parole :: body : perceptionword : language :: percept : world horizon; The Birth of Architecture: The Gesture; Reversible and Irreducible Architecture; References; 7. Architecture and Voices of Silence; Glance/Le Regard; Hand/La Main; Body/Le Corps; References; 8. The Philosopher of Modern Life: Baudelaire, Merleau-Ponty, and the Art of Phenomenological Critique; The "Alchemy of Suffering" and the Art of "Secret Science"; The Art of Phenomenological Critique; References; 9. The Flesh Made Word: As I Lay Dying and Being Incarnate; Introduction; Surface Destruction of Narrative

Addie Bundren: The Visible and the InvisibleChercher l'Odeur; Family as "Body"; Gestural Language: Laughter and "Looks"; Faulkner and "The Gaze"; Cruel Reversibility; Darl's Doubt; Closing Thoughts; References; 10. Listening in Depth: Reading Merleau-Ponty Alongside Nancy; Hearing and Listening; Listening to the Depths of the Other; Listening to the Depths of the World; Abbreviations; References; 11. Art and the Overcoming of the Discourse of Modernity; The Discourse of Modernity; The Aesthetic Critique: Schelling; Merleau-Ponty's Response; References

12. Tactile Cogito: Horizons of Corporeity, Animality, and Affect in Merleau-PontyReferences; 13. The Chiasm as a Virtual: A Non-concept in Merleau-Ponty's Work (with a Coda on Theatre); Introduction; The Possible in the Pre-actualization; The Possible in the Post-actualization; The Middle Way; The Chiasm; The Metaphor of the Theatre; Conclusion; References; Contributors; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438459608

1438459602