Retrieval of the Beautiful - Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty''s Aesthetics

Informationen zum Autor GALEN A. JOHNSON is an honors professor of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island, director of the University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities, and general secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle. Klappentext In this elegant new study Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful. Zusammenfassung Presents the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. This book formulates that the ontology of Flesh as element and the ontology of the Beautiful as elemental are folded together! for Desire! Love! and Beauty are part of the fabric of the world's element! Flesh itself.

Product details

• Authors: Galen A. Johnson
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2009
• EAN: 9780810125667
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2566-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Northwestern University Studie; Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Northwestern University Studie; Studies in Phenomenology and E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works