The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting

Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank among the most sophisticated reflections on art in twentieth-century philosophy. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy.

About the author

GALEN A. JOHNSON is a professor of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island. He is the coeditor, with Michael B. Smith, of Ontology and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty (Northwestern University Press) and the author of Earth and Sky, His History and Philosophy: Island Images Inspired by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.

MICHAEL B. SMITH is an associate professor of French at Berry College and the translator of Michel de Certeau's Fable Mystique.

Product details

• Authors: Galen A. Johnson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Assisted by: Galen A. Johnson (Editor), Michael B. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• EAN: 9780810110748
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1074-8
• No. of pages: 422
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 213 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 621 g
• Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Studies in Phenomenology and E; Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Studies in Phenomenology and E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works