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There is an astonishing line of creative inspiration that connects the philosophy of Sufism, the Middle Eastern art of miniature painting, the work of 20th-century artists like Henri Matisse, and the phenomenology of thinkers like Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The Veil of Depiction traces this line, demonstrating the historical continuity and the philosophical common ground between the traditions in question. The book concludes by combining Sufism and phenomenology to propose a whole new way of looking at art.
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EVRIM EMIR-SAYERS is a scholar of philosophy who researches, teaches, writes, edits, and translates out of Paris, France. Her work mostly focuses on existentialism, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art, while her translations range from Plato to an array of Turkish writers and poets including Ahmed Arif, A¿¿k Veysel, Gün Benderli, Naz¿m Hikmet, and Sabiha Sertel. Evrim's 2021 article, "The Real Academy in Exile" (co-authored with David Selim Sayers), sparked an international debate in the field of Turkish Studies. Evrim is a co-founder and core faculty member of the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT).
