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Zusatztext "Merleau-Ponty's engagement with visual art both informs and justifies his account of perception; it is impossible to understand the latter without the former. In both cases the experience of communion with what goes beyond oneself is crucial. The interesting and informative essays in this collection bring out some of the interplay between these artistic, perceptual, and religious phenomena and explore the way Merleau-Ponty himself understands them. The book will serve both as a guide to the uninitiated in these areas and as a spur to those already engaged." - Sean D. Kelly, Harvard University, USA Informationen zum Autor Kascha Semonovitch is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Seattle University, USA, and received her PhD in philosophy at Boston College, USA. She is the co-editor of Phenomenologies of the Stranger (Fordham, forthoming 2010). Neal DeRoo teaches philosophy at Brock University (St. Catharines, Canada). He is the co-editor of Cross and Khôra: Deconstruction and Christianity in the work of John D. Caputo (Pickwick, 2009), Phenomenology and Eschatology: Not Yet in the Now (Ashgate, 2009), and The Logic of Incarnation: James K.A. Smith's Critique of Postmodern Religion (Pickwick, 2008). Vorwort A timely and important collection of essays examining Merleau-Ponty's interrogation of the limits of philosophy. Zusammenfassung This book poses the question of what lies at the limit of philosophy. Through close studies of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life and work, the authors examine one of the twentieth century's most interdisciplinary philosophers whose thought intersected with and contributed to the practices of art, psychology, literature, faith and philosophy. As these essays show, Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre disrupts traditional disciplinary boundaries and prompts his readers to ask what, exactly, constitutes philosophy and its others. Featuring essays by an international team of leading phenomenologists, art theorists, theologians, historians of philosophy, and philosophers of mind, this volume breaks new ground in Merleau-Ponty scholarship—including the first sustained reflections on the relationship between Merleau-Ponty and religion—and magnifies a voice that is talked-over in too many conversations across the academic disciplines. Anyone interested in phenomenology, art theory and history, cognitive science, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion will find themselves challenged and engaged by the articles included in this important effort at inter-disciplinary philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments \ Notes on Contributors \ Introduction: Unlimiting Philosophy Kascha Semonovitch and Neal DeRoo \ Part I: Limits of Art \ 1. Freeing the Line John Sallis \ 2. Merleau-Ponty and Cezanne on Painting Gunter Figal \ 3. Merleau-Ponty and Kant's Third Critique: On the Beautiful and Sublime Galen Johnson \ Part II: Limits of Perception \ 4. Skill and the Critique of Descartes in Gilbert Ryle and Maurice Merleau-Ponty Gabrielle Bennet Jackson \ 5. Phantom Limbs and Phantom Worlds: Being Responsive to the Present Susan Bredlau \ Part III: Limits of Temporality and Phenomenology \ 6. L'écart : Merleau-Ponty's Separation from Husserl; Or, Absolute Time Constituting Consciousness Michael R. Kelly \ 7. Time at the Depth of the World Glen Mazis \ Part IV: Limits of Faith and Sacramentality \ 8. Merleau-Ponty and the Sacramentality of the Flesh Richard Kearney \ 9. Merleau-Ponty and Modernist Sacrificial Poetics: A Response to Richard Kearney Joseph S. O'Leary \ 10. ' Faith is in things not seen' : Merleau-Ponty on Faith, Virtù , and the Perception of Style Darian Meacham \ Bibliography...
