Perceiving-Thinking-Writing: Merleau-Ponty and Literature / Donald Wesling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wesling, Donald, Author.

Series:

HJEAS Books

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Place of Publication:

Warsaw ; Berlin : Sciendo, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Donald Wesling’s leading argument, drawn from a crossover theory of the humanities, has philosophy and literature in a relation of constructive interference. What is common to both disciplines is the attempt to understand the necessary but often forgotten act of perceiving within the embodied mind. Wesling asks and answers: How does perceptual content enter thinking and writing?His topics include a redefinition of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology as a big-hearted rationality; quantum interference as a metaphor for thinking and also for the relation of self to the outer surround of things and persons; nine key terms from Merleau-Ponty as applied to the practical reading of poems and stories; the role of the sentence as an energy that structures thinking and writing; ordinary creativity and co-creativity.Overall, Wesling emphasizes that the meaning for the humanities, now, may be found in Merleau-Ponty’s belief that future work will be a search for “a secondary, laborious, rediscovered naïveté” and that in this pursuit “our relation to what is true must pass through others.”

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Abbreviations of Texts by Merleau-Ponty

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Prodigious Search of Appearance

Chapter 2: Eye and Mind in Painting and Writing

Chapter 3: Ineinander: Energies of Interference

Chapter 4: Recovering the Subject in the Act of Speaking—and Writing

Chapter 5: Energies of Attention: Syntax in Depth

Chapter 6: Modes and Powers of Attention: Nine Terms from Merleau-Ponty

Chapter 7: Reading Poems and a Novel with the Nine Terms

Chapter 8: Ordinary Creativity

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Note on the author

Notes:

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ISBN:

9788367405959

8367405951