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This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.
List of contents
After the Cypress: An Introduction
David P. Nichols
Jaspers' Pathographic Analysis of Van Gogh: A Critique and Appreciation
Gregory J. Walters
Painting from the Outside: Foucault and Van Gogh
Joseph J. Tanke
The Problem of Agency in Heidegger's Interpretation of Van Gogh
Ingvild Torsen
Sensuality, Materiality, Painting: What is Wrong with Jaspers' and Heidegger's Van Gogh Interpretations?
Christian Lotz
Mal Pointure or If the Shoe Doesn't Fit...
K. Malcolm Richards
Van Gogh, Heidegger, and the Attuned Life
Stephen A. Erickson
Immanent Transcendence in the Work of Art: Jaspers and Heidegger on Van Gogh
Rebecca Longtin Hansen
Merleau-Ponty's Thinking of Perception and the Art of Van Gogh: On "Going Further" and "Going Beyond"
Galen A. Johnson
Van Gogh in Tragic Portraiture: Jaspers, Bataille, Heidegger
David P. Nichols
Prometheus Dismembered: Bataille on Van Gogh or The Window in the Bataille Restaurant
James Luchte
Van Gogh's Dark Illuminations: The End of Art or The Art of the End
Alina N. Feld
Van Gogh and the Absence of the Work: Remnants of a Hermeneutic Itinerary
Stephen H. Watson
About the Contributors
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Edited by David P. Nichols - Contributions by Pauline E. Erickson; Alina N. Feld; Stephen A. Erickson; Rebecca Longtin Hansen; Galen A. Johnson; Christian Lotz; James Luchte; David P. Nichols; K. Malcolm Richards; Joseph J. Tanke; Ingvild Torsen; Gregory
Summary
This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.
