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In this book, fourteen international authors across various fields analyze the concept of chiasm and its role in human perception and experience, discussing the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, and adapting their ideas to cultural analysis.
List of contents
General Introduction: Rereading Chiasms
Kuisma Korhonen
PART ONE: Chiasmatic Art: Between Visibility and Ideality
Introduction
1: Merleau-Ponty, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, and I
Alan Paskow
2: The Chiasmatic Metropolis: Merleau-Ponty's "Invisible" as a Source of Inspiration for Artistic Creativity
Barbara Weber
3: Time as Chiasm: Listening for Ideality through Sibelius
Jessica Wiskus
4: Chiasms in Art
Roberto Terrosi
PART TWO: Becoming Deleuze
Introduction
5: Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Make-Up
Christine Battersby
6: Black Screen, White Noise: Beyond the Face in David Lynch's Lost Highway
Janne Vanhanen
PART THREE: Ethical Encounters
Introduction
7: Could the Caress Be the Necessary Third Term in the Chiasmatic Encounter?
Chung-yi Chu
8: Chiasmatic Ethical Encounters
Nicole Anderson
9: On the Ethical Significance of Encountering the Otherness of Literary Worlds
Hanna Meretoja
10: How to Read a Work of Art: Disclosing the World Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction
Tomi Kaarto
PART FOUR: Does Politics Need Ethics? Does Ethics Need Politics?
Introduction
11: Does Politics Need Ethics? Some Existential Meditations
Sonia Kruks
12: Why Ethics Needs Politics: A Cosmopolitan Perspective
Herta Nagl-Docekal
13: Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in Jürgen Habermas
Peter Bornedal
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Topics
Contributors
Editors
Series Editor
About the author
Kuisma Korhonen is professor of literature at the University of Oulu.Arto Haapala is professor of aesthetics at the University of Helsinki. Sara Heinämaa is senior lecturer and docent in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki.Kristian Klockars is university lecturer in social and moral philosophy at the University of Helsinki. Pajari Räsänen is postdoctoral researcher in comparative literature at the University of Helsinki.Kuisma Korhonen is professor of literature at the University of Oulu.Barbara Weber is associate professor and program chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program (ISGP) at the University of British Columbia.Roberto Terrosi is full time lecturer in Italian language and Italian studies at Ritsumeikan University.Peter Bornedal is professor emeritus of philosophy and civilization studies at the American University of Beirut.
Summary
In this book, fourteen international authors across various fields analyze the concept of chiasm and its role in human perception and experience, discussing the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, and adapting their ideas to cultural analysis.
