Merleau-Ponty''s Poetic of the World - Philosophy and Literature

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface | ix

Abbreviations of Works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Other Writers | xi

Introduction

Galen A. Johnson | 1

Part I: Merleau-Ponty's Poets

1 "The Proustian Corporeity" and "The True Hawthorns":

Merleau-Ponty as a Reader of Proust between Husserl and Benjamin

Mauro Carbone | 17

2 A Poetics of Co-Naissance:

Via André Breton, Paul Claudel, and Claude Simon

Emmanuel de Saint Aubert | 31

3 From the World of Silence to Poetic Language:

Merleau-Ponty and Valéry

Galen A. Johnson | 68

Part II: Merleau-Ponty's Poetics

4 The Clouded Surface: Literature and Philosophy

as Visual Apparatuses According to Merleau-Ponty

Mauro Carbone | 101

5 Metaphoricity: Carnal Infrastructures and Ontological Horizons

Emmanuel de Saint Aubert | 121

6 On the Poetic and the True

Galen A. Johnson | 159

Acknowledgments | 191

Notes | 193

Index | 241

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Galen A. Johnson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island. He has been General Secretary (Executive Director) of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle (2005-2015) and Jane C. Ebbs Endowed Professor of Philosophy (2016-2018). He is the author of The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics (Northwestern University Press, 2010) and editor of The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting (Northwestern University Press, 1993).

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mauro Carbone, Galen A Johnson, Galen A. Johnson, Galen A. Carbone Johnson, Galen A./ de Saint Aubert Johnson, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780823288137
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8813-7
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Perspectives in Continental Ph; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Literaturtheorie, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology