Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty / Judith Wambacq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wambacq, Judith, author.

Series:

Series in Continental thought.

Series in Continental Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Questioning the dominant view that Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty have little of substance in common, Judith Wambacq draws on unpublished primary sources and current scholarship in English and French to bring them into a compelling dialogue to reveal a shared concern with the transcendental conditions of thought.

Contents:

Intro

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

A Difficult Undertaking

A Promising Undertaking

A Necessary Undertaking

Structure

What i have not done

1. The Arepresentational Conception of Thinking Thought in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze

Merleau-Ponty's Criticism of Representational Thought

Empiricist and Intellectualist Accounts of Perception

Merleau-Ponty's Account of Perception

Merleau-Ponty's Account of Thought

Deleuze's Criticism of Representational Thought

Thinking Thought as the Attempt to Unravel the Sense of a Sign (First Postulate)

The Sense of a Sign Is Not Situated in the Object or the Subject, but in the Essence as Absolute Difference (Fourth and Third Postulates)

Thinking Thought as a Discordant Play among the Different Faculties (Second Postulate)

Art as the Privileged Domain to Unravel the Essence? (Sixth Postulate)

Thinking Thought as Learning How to Create Problems (Eighth and Seventh Postulates)

Stupidity as the Highest Finality of Thinking Thought (Fifth Postulate)

Comparison of Merleau-Ponty's and Deleuze's Conceptions of Thought

2. Ontology in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze

Merleau-Ponty's Endo-Ontology

First Dimension: The Differential Nature of the Flesh

Second Dimension: The Open Nature of the Flesh

Third Dimension: The Constitutive Nature of the Flesh

Deleuze's Differential Ontology

First Dimension: Virtual Being as a Noninternal Multiplicity

Second Dimension: "?-Being"

Third Dimension: The Constitutive Character of the Virtual

Comparison of Merleau-Ponty's and Deleuze's Ontologies

3. Deleuze's and Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Projects

Deleuze's Transcendental Project

Differences in Kant's and Deleuze's Approaches to the Transcendental.

Differential Moments in Kant's Transcendental Philosophy

The Spinozistic and Maimonian/Leibnizian Inspiration for Deleuze's Transcendental Philosophy

Husserl in Deleuze's Transcendental Philosophy

Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Project

Merleau-Ponty's Immanent Interest in Husserl

The Differential Interest in Merleau-Ponty's Criticism of Husserl

Comparison of Merleau-Ponty's and Deleuze's Transcendental Projects

4. Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze, Readers of Bergson

Merleau-Ponty's and Deleuze's Bergsonian Understandings of Time

Merleau-Ponty's Early Reading of Bergson, Seen through a Deleuzean Lens

Merleau-Ponty's Late Reading of Bergson, Seen through a Deleuzean Lens

Merleau-Ponty's and Deleuze's Understandings of Depth

Merleau-Ponty's Account of Depth

Deleuze's Account of Depth

Comparison of Merleau-Ponty's and Deleuze's Conceptions of Depth and Time

5. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty, Readers of Proust

The Search as a Search for a Non-Platonic Truth

Artistic Essences in the Search

The Little Phrase

La Berma

Leibniz and Elstir

The Time of Half-Sleep

Divergences Between Merleau-Ponty's and Deleuze's Readings of Proust

6. Cézanne in Deleuze's and Merleau-Ponty's Philosophies of Art

Painting is not about Representation

Painting is about the Expression of Sensations

The Creation of an Artistic Expression

The Deformation of Relations

A Collaboration of Body and Mind

The Nature of Artistic Expression

What is Expressed by the Artistic Expression?

Colorism

Deleuze's Critique of Phenomenological Aesthetics

7. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty, Readers of Saussure

Saussure in the Early Deleuze

Saussure in Merleau-Ponty

Saussure in Deleuze and Guattari

Comparison of Merleau-Ponty's and Deleuze's Readings of Saussure

Conclusion.

A Different Merleau-Ponty and a Different Deleuze

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821446126

0821446126

OCLC:

1015335787