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This book develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and as a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts.
List of contents
Introduction Peter R. Costello
Overview Licia Carlson
Phenomenological Method
Chapter 1 Phenomenological Description and Artistic Expression
John Russon
Chapter 2 On the Possibility of the 'Purity' and Primacy of Art: A Phenomenological Analysis Based in Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Kant
Galen A. Johnson
Chapter 3 In the Interest of Art
John Lysaker
Chapter 4 Between Fabrication and Form: Heidegger's Phenomenology of the Work
of Art
Brian Rogers
Visual Arts
Chapter 5 Husserl, Expressionism, and the Eidetic Impulse in Brücke's Woodcut
Christian Lotz
Chapter 6 Blind Narcissism: Derrida, Klee, and Merleau-Ponty on the Line
Scott Marratto
Chapter 7 Perceptual Openness and Institutional Closure in the Contemporary
Artworks of Luis Jacob and Phillip Buntin
Kirsten Jacobson
Literature
Chapter 8 An Organism of Words: Merleau-Ponty on Embodiment, Language and
Literature
Susan Bredlau
Chapter 9 Questioning the Material of Meaning: Merleau-Ponty, Adorno, and
Beckett on the Dynamic Character of Expression
Whitney Howell
Chapter 10 "Thinking According to Others": Expression, Intimacy, and the Passage
of Time in Merleau-Ponty and Woolf.
Laura McMahon
Music
Chapter 11 Another Standard: Jazz Music and the Experience of Self-Transcendence
Jeff Morrisey
Chapter 12 Encounters with Musical Others
Licia Carlson
Place and Action
Chapter 13 Of Earth and Sky: The Phenomenology of James Turrell's Roden Crater
Project
Matthew Goodwin
Chapter 14 Transitional Objects, Playful Faculties, and Par-ergon-omics-Moving Together Towards Religious Art
Peter Costello
Chapter 15 Hegel and the Phenomenology of Art
David Ciavatta
About the author
Licia Carlson is an associate professor of philosophy at Providence College.
Peter R. Costello is professor of philosophy at Providence College.
Summary
This book develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and as a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts.
