Merleau-Ponty's poetic of the world : philosophy and literature / Galen A. Johnson, Mauro Carbone, and Emmanuel de Saint Aubert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Galen A., 1948- author.

Carbone, Mauro, 1956- author.

Saint-Aubert, Emmanuel de, author.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961--Aesthetics.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 253 pages.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Galen A. Johnson

"The Proustian corporeity" and "the true Hawthorns" : Merleau-Ponty as a reader of Proust between Husserl and Benjamin / Mauro Carbone

A poetics of co-naissance : via Andre Breton, Paul Claudel, and Claude Simon / Emmanuel de Saint Aubert

From the world of silence to poetic language : Merleau-Ponty and Valery / Galen A. Johnson

The clouded surface : literature and philosophy as visual apparatuses according to Merleau-Ponty / Mauro Carbone

Metaphoricity : carnal infrastructures and ontological horizons / Emmanuel de Saint Aubert

On the poetic and the true / Galen A. Johnson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 4, 2020).

This edition previously issued in print: 2020.

Contains:

Fordham scholarship online.

ISBN:

0-8232-9037-9

0-8232-8814-5

OCLC:

1183978099